On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:23:34 -0400 (EDT), Mirko Parthey wrote: > > In your current article, you suggest rebuilding ncurses to add a > custom terminal type. I find it much easier to just install a terminal > definition locally as a configuration file. > > This can be achieved with the following command: > tic -x terminaldef.src > where terminaldef.src contains just the single entry from your patch. > > The output is written to /etc/terminfo/ or $HOME/.terminfo/, > depending on the privileges of the user the tic command runs as. > The ncurses library searches for terminal definitions in several places, > including these two directories.
Thanks for the suggestion, Mirko. I may incorporate this in a future edition of my web page. A source package modification to coreutils will still be necessary, though, so that dircolors recognizes the new terminal definition as one that supports color. The only exception would be if you were creating a new terminal definition for a terminal that does *not* support color. Actually, I think this is poor design. In my opinion, dircolors should make an ncurses call to determine if the terminal supports color, rather than using an independent internal database of terminals which support color. There's too much chance of these two independent databases getting out of sync, as we see has already happened with xterm-utf8. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/11359349.4274949.1413058531316.javamail.zim...@wowway.com
