From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 12:05:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21874 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21868 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se ([134.25.193.91]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA16611; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:05:42 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA01656; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:05:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990117210541.A1627@sr.se> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:05:41 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: phoenix@calldei.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xterm Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <19990117025046.A16327@holly.dyndns.org> <36A1F992.B609EAF1@uk.radan.com> <19990117123947.B22374@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990117123947.B22374@holly.dyndns.org>; from Chris Costello on Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:39:48PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:39:48PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > > > I just installed FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE, but xterm does not support color > > > as it did when I was using FreeBSD 2.2. Is there any way I can, well, make > > > it work ? > > > > > > > xterm -tn xterm-color > > Tried that, and that's what I really thought it should do. Even made > it set the TERMCAP variable to the xterm-color termcap entry ... still > black and white. I noticed a similar behaviour, if I put `xterm -tn xterm-color` in the Icon bar that comes with windowmaker then it doesn't work, but if I put in windowmaker's menu it works! Can any `smarter` person explain why? :) -- regards, Gunnar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message