On May 16, J.H.M.Dassen wrote > On May 15, John Goerzen wrote > > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that > > > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support > > > has been > > > > Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this variable. In > > fact, I believe that ncurses doesn't even use it. > > The S-Lang library support it. For a demonstration: start up rxvt (I've used > 2.20-4) and fire up mutt. You'll have colour support, with $TERM == xterm . > Now start it up "env -u COLORTERM mutt". It'll be black&white.
Which makes for a very confusing setup, as COLORTERM doesn't get propagated by telnet, ssh, etc. It took us a while to figure out under what circumstances we got color. What problem is COLORTERM trying to solve? It's very non-standard. Also, I'd hope that if xterm now does color as standard, that fact is reflected in its terminfo entry. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com/ future is made today.. Partner of The Perl Institute http://www.perl.org/ Linux http://www.li.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .