xterm shows no color for color fonts

[Ben.Kelley@ubsw.com]

Hi.

The original xterm did not support colour. Some operating systems still ship with this version. e.g. Solaris 2.6 has the non-colour version.

The version of xterm that comes with recent versions of xf-86 should.

Try "xterm -version".

On xf-86/cygwin (where colour works) I get "XFree86 4.2.0(165)".

On Solaris 2.6 (no coloru) I get "xterm:  bad command line option "-version"".

   - Ben Kelley.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Haibing Ma [mailto:haibing_ma@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 12:37
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: RE: xterm shows no color for color fonts
>
>
>Thanks for your reply.
>
>I checked /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, it looks fine to me. I
>also tried /usr/bin/ls --color=always, it shows no color in xterm. I
>tried rxvt, it works fine. 
>
>Any other clue?
>
>I think rxvt is fine with me, the only problem is that the HOME key
>doesn't work.
>
>Haibing
>
>--- Ben.Kelley@ubsw.com wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> xterm normally picks up its colour definitions from its X resources.
>> 
>> Normally on xf86/cygwin this would be the file
>> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.
>> 
>> I guess it is also worth checking that the application you are using
>> to try to display coloured text is actually sending the correct
>> escape sequences to xterm.
>> 
>> e.g. /usr/bin/ls --color=always
>> 
>>    - Ben Kelley.
>> 
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:andrew.markebo@telia.com]
>> >Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 08:35
>> >To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>> >Subject: Re: xterm shows no color for color fonts
>> >
>> >
>> >/ Haibing Ma <haibing_ma@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >| When I opened vi or emacs-nox, it shows bold fonts and 
>> >underlines, but
>> >| it doesn't show colors. All characters are in my foreground color.
>> I
>> >| set xterm*VT100*colorMode: true. I even tried +cm option, it
>> doesn't
>> >| work either. Did miss anything?
>> >
>> >What does it look like if you try it (which version of Emacs BTW?)
>> >from rxvt instead of xterm?
>> >
>> >     /Andy
>> >
>> >-- 
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>> >
>> >
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