Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:21:53 -0600 (CST) From: David Vondrasek <dallas.tex@airmail.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XTERM Message-ID: <XFMail.980214162241.dallas.tex@airmail.net> In-Reply-To: <19980215080513.02351@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 14-Feb-98 Greg Lehey wrote: >On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 9:38:40 -0600, David Vondrasek wrote: >> >> On 14-Feb-98 Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 1:07:54 -0800, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: >>>> In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >>>> >>>>> I'm tring to run a program that uses ANIS color and was told I need to >set >>> the >>>>> ENV VAR to * SET TERM COLOR * ? to be able to display the colors with out >>>>> seeing ansi seq's. ANy help on HOW to set this please ? >>>> >>>>> I'm running 2.2.5-R with FVWM2 >>>> >>>> I don't think the stock xterm which comes with the X distribution does >>>> color. I'd recommend rxvt instead, which does handle it. Look in the >>>> ports/packages for it. >>> >>> No, the standard xterm does do colour. You need to set the TERM >>> environment to xterm-color. There's also a resource which governs the >>> use of colour. It should be enabled by default, but if you have >>> trouble, check that you have this line in >>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm: >>> >>> *VT100*colorMode: on >>> >>>> rxvt is also half the memory size of xterm, so it's good even if you >>>> don't need color. >>> >>> So what doesn't it do that xterm does? >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>> >> >> Ok Thanks gGreg this is uncommented. But here is what I get, I do get color >> thogh. >> >> >> >> .$P`.d$P' ,-, $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$,a$n, `$$$%$$$` $$$$` >>> `$b,`Y$b, $$$ $$$ $$$ `-' $$$ $$$n ,$$$%$$$, $$P' >> ' $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ ,-, $$$ $$$$ ,$$$$% %$$$$,` >>> $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$ ,$$$$$$ $$$$$$, >> ' $$$$$%P' $$$ $$$ `Y$b,d$$P,$$$n $$P' $$$$$$ $$$$$$ tM! >> `#%$%' '%$%#` >> >> I get the codes I guess. I see color and 1/2 of the esc. seq's, Like some of >> the colors don't come though. But out of X it looks fine. Just under X It >> miss's stuff. the rxvt does the same thing. > >This looks like an incorrect TERM setting. What's the program? What >is it supposed to do? > >Greg > The program is a IRC Progrogram called BitchX , it has ANSI colors. ---------------------------------- David Vondrasek E-Mail: David Vondrasek <dallas.tex@airmail.net> Date: 14-Feb-98 Time: 16:21:55 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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