On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:35:02AM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> > The xterm terminal description does not support colour so tmux does not
> > attempt
> > to use it, use a terminal description that does have it such as xterm-color
> > or
> > xterm-xfree86.
>
> This causes problems fora lot of people, I don't think there are any b&w
> xterms
> out there and recent ncurses does have setaf/setab in its xterm
> description... so I don't see a reason we shouldn't just have a quirk to
> override it. Could you try this please?
you think that is the wrong place to fix things? tmux probably shouldn't
try to "fix" terminal descriptions originating from lower-level systems,
especially since this is a full OS, not some distribution of
mostly-unrelated components, so the various components can be made to
play well together.
Having xterm-xfree86 as the default TERM setting for xterms makes sense.
However, using the following in .Xdefaults works just fine. I do agree
that making this the default in the xterm binary may be desirable.
XTerm*termName: xterm-xfree86
Joachim
