Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:17:54 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xterm Message-ID: <19990117211754.C1627@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <19990117210541.A1627@sr.se>; from Gunnar Flygt on Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:05:41PM %2B0100 References: <19990117025046.A16327@holly.dyndns.org> <36A1F992.B609EAF1@uk.radan.com> <19990117123947.B22374@holly.dyndns.org> <19990117210541.A1627@sr.se>
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On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:05:41PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > 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? :) Seems that I was `smarter` myself. Discovered thatr I had put the parameter at the wrong place. It works both in the menus and on the icon panel. -- regards, Gunnar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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