On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit
> color to 256 color. I have tried through my display settings but when
> I restart my computer it goes right back to 16 bits.
16 bit is more colours than 256
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:59:19PM +, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > I didn't think the OP was confused so much as confusing. It is not normal
> > to mix number of bits and number of colours as he did,
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
> # We need to know what desktop/display manager [s]he's using don't we?
>
> not really, imho.
>
> we need to see /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> also, to try different settings one can use xrandr
>
OK, yes, I had my sort of Windows/doItFro
# We need to know what desktop/display manager [s]he's using don't we?
not really, imho.
we need to see /etc/X11/xorg.conf
also, to try different settings one can use xrandr
manu
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit
>color to 256 color. I have tried through my display settings but when
>I restart my computer it goes right back to 16 bits.
>
I think you have yo
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit
>>>color to 256 color. I have tried through my display
Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit
color to 256 color. I have tried through my display settings but when
I restart my computer it goes right back to 16 bits.
I
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 co
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
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. Othe
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.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
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
> >
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
>> >> There's an
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 -
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,
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
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
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>
> >> The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
> >> There's an faq at
> >>http://invisible-island.net/x
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 orde
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
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 em
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 highlighting work
> when I'm in a terminal.
The simplest way is
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