RE: xterm shows no color for color fonts

[Haibing Ma <haibing_ma at yahoo dot com>]

Thanks all. I finally solved the mystery. It could be that I might have
an old xterm and there is wrong setting in my .Xdefaults that I set
termName to vt100.

Cheers.

Haibing

--- Ben dot Kelley at ubsw dot com wrote:
> 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 at yahoo dot com]
> >Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 12:37
> >To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot 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 dot Kelley at ubsw dot 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 dot markebo at telia dot com]
> >> >Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 08:35
> >> >To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> >> >Subject: Re: xterm shows no color for color fonts
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >/ Haibing Ma <haibing_ma at yahoo dot 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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