On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > Why does debian have to be different than the rest of the world in > > everything? Why do I get colors when I set TERM=xterm? there was already > > xterm-color and xterm-debian which could do colors. > > Other Linux distributions tend to default to a colour xterm, I thought.
I thought slackware defaults to a non color xterm, and solaris too. And debian slink too, which is my main problem: Why is this setting changed between slink and potato?? > So why don't you just change your local settings to make xterm be mono? > Ummm. `XTerm*ColorMode: no' seems like it'd do what you want. That seems to work just fine. I wish I was aware of that resource a bit earlier... Wouter