Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> >> >> >> The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation >> >> There's an faq at >> >> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html >> >> ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ >> >> >> > > Not exactly (I don't make any of those packages, but frequently compile >> xterm on systems where they're installed). Looking at the stuff I've >> installed, it appears that xlibs-dev and libxaw6-dev is what you need to >> be able to do this. So making a package shouldn't require anything more >> (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to >> compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. >>
> ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was > hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, > but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I tried running some of That could be a termcap issue - emacs has to see the xterm-256color entry. But I don't use emacs, and only know secondhand about the script it uses for setting this up. > the tests in vttests (um, I get the impression from the net that you > wrote these, Thomas!) but the oly one that seemed to generate more most of them - not the 256colors.pl (though I've made changes to it). > than 16 colors was dynamic.sh. 256colors.pl, for instance, only shows > the ANSI colors, not the 16x16 box or the grayscale ramp its supposed > to. Do I have to set some other variables somewhere (e.g., in > .Xdefaults) to make sure xtemr understnads 256-colors? No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally not a problem. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]