Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:20:32PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:20:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: Have you installed all its build-dependencies, listed in the .dsc file (or 'apt-get build-dep xfree86')? err... no. I did, however, apt-get build-dep xterm, and I

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:09:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:20:32PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: err... no. I did, however, apt-get build-dep xterm, and I really only want to build xterm. Do I have to build all of xfree86?? I really don't want to do that, since

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:15:45 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:09:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote: by hand; I expect that to be difficult for xfree86. There's nothing to ^ Oops; closing parenthesis goes

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
to be able to do this. So making a package shouldn't require anything more (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:03:11AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:15:45 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:09:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote: by hand; I expect that to be difficult for xfree86. There's nothing to

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
into xterm's package. ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I tried running some of That could be a termcap issue - emacs has to see the xterm

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally not a problem. Otherwise,

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- so I'm a bit confused. Does this mean I should check in my XF86config-4 (or someplace similar) to see if my display is 8 or 16 That lists the choices that the server can make on startup. The actual decision is logged, e.g., in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (on

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:36PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the whole of xfree86 in order

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
a package shouldn't require anything more (except of course the package-building-packages) than what I need to compile xterm. After all, they're not incorporated into xterm's package. ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:20:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files named xfree86-4.2.1*. The

256-color xterm

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

color xterm (again, *sigh*)

1997-07-21 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
sorry about another color-xterm question, but root seems to have all colors in xterm (dir=blue,jpg=green, etc.) but my user (mattyt) only has blue for dir and white for everything else. ??? matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: color xterm

1997-03-10 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Fran\gois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Interesting. Where did you find information on that resource? (It's apparently not in the manual page.) In this mailing list. It was in the following message: To: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippe Troin [EMAIL

Re: color xterm

1997-03-07 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Fran\gois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpk wrote: is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone know where it is? i have looked all over in the ftp site to find it with no luck. This has been asked recently. The color xterm package has been abandonned

Re: color xterm

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
| XTerm*customization: -color | ^^^ | |Interesting. Where did you find information on that resource? (It's |apparently not in the manual page.) It's a global Intrinsics resource. Maybe it is in the general X server page. It works for other programs too. If you have a program

Re: color xterm

1997-03-05 Thread François
dpk wrote: is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone know where it is? i have looked all over in the ftp site to find it with no luck. This has been asked recently. The color xterm package has been abandonned with XFree 3.2. All you have to do is to add