On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:29:24PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Bihlmaier Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I stumbled across a problem with all X terminal emulators in OpenBSD > > (that is xterm and aterm, eterm and rxvt from ports). > > None of the above seems to support 256 colors. I tried various > > combinations of $TERM (xterm, xterm-color, xterm-xfree86, > > xterm-256color) with all the terminals, running and not running screen. > > xterm as distributed with OpenBSD is *not* built with 256-color > support. > > > I googled for about 3 hours last night, but without a definite answer > > whether OpenBSD supports 256colors in terminal under X. The argument I > > read (sorry can't seem to find the link anymore) was that the 256color > > support had some issues and was removed. > > It is simply not enabled by default in the xterm upstream distribution. > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for confirming this, since I don't want to make a custom xterm build for every one of my desktop boxes, I'll just drop the idea and use another colorscheme. ahb
