color depth and colored text in xterms

[Robert Jacobson]

At 12:55 PM -0500 03/20/01, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>  >
>  > I have two questions.
>  >
>  > 1)  The colors seem to be okay in 8-bit color.  Can someone tell me
>  > why colors work okay in 8-bit, but not in "deeper" screens?
>
>Because the server code was written for 8-bit cfb.  Although it uses
>cfb16, cfb24 and cfb32, but those codes are buggy right now.

Thanks for the info.

>  >
>>  2)  Colored text in xterms (i.e. colored text in the bash prompt) is
>>  not working for me.  It works fine in the bash cygwin terms, but just
>>  appears black in the xterms.  Did I do something wrong?
>
>You can use bash as your shell for xterm. 
>
>Suhaib

Ah, I think you misunderstand me.  I *am* using bash in my xterms, 
but the colored text appears as black.

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