Re: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Stan Kaufman
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > dselect was written with the assumption that your foreground color is white > and the background color is black, just like on the console. If you have > xterm > set to not use those colors, your dselect experience will be less than good. > > So, easy fix place the

RE: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote: > When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker, > the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the > text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting, > but what can I do to make dselect usable in

can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Stan Kaufman
When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker, the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting, but what can I do to make dselect usable in xterm? Or am I the only one with this pro

Re: color in xterm

1999-11-27 Thread Christian Hammers
> 1. the xterm scrollbar displays differently in debian from in redhat. I > like it in redhat more. Is it a thing about terminfo? ( Running redhat > binary in debian got same result. ) This is configurable by the ~/.Xresources: XTerm*rightScrollBar: true XTerm*scrollBar:true XTerm*multi

color in xterm

1999-11-27 Thread jack
hi, Just want to feel better when coding; no critical issue this time. 1. the xterm scrollbar displays differently in debian from in redhat. I like it in redhat more. Is it a thing about terminfo? ( Running redhat binary in debian got same result. ) 2. what are all xterm.color* about? I obse

Re: HE: color in xterm and jed

1997-11-13 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrea Mennucci) writes: [snip] > Is there a way I can tell xterm to set TERM=xterm-color ? Put: "XTerm*termName: xterm-color" in /etc/X11/Xresources to do this for everyone, or in ~/.Xresources for yourself, or say: % xterm -xrm '*termName: xterm-color' to do it for jus

HE: color in xterm and jed

1997-11-12 Thread Andrea Mennucci
Hi to everybody Maybe there is an easy answer to this but I couldnt find it When I used Slackware there was a command like ``color-xterm'' and I would have an xterm with color support In debian if I run ls --color=auto or jed (with ANSI_COLORS enabled)I see colors; but if I run a script which

how to make ncurses programs show color in xterm?

1997-05-05 Thread Joey Hess
Slang programs use color in my xterms, as does ls, but most curses programs lack color when I run them in an xterm. I know I can get color by setting TERM to xterm-color, but then when I exit a curses application, the color is not reset to normal. Has anyone gotten this to work right? I see that x

Can't get color in xterm!

1997-03-30 Thread Christian Hudon
At some distant point in the past I used to get color in my xterms... I had even customized the colors using X resources. But after installing a bunch of things, I don't get color anymore. The xterm still understands the color escape sequences, but it maps them all to either black or white It does