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 stil
and libxaw6-dev is what you need 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&#
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
> >
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 appear for me in xe
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
he stuff I've
> installed, it appears that xlibs-dev and libxaw6-dev is what you need 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
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
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
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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
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> 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]>
>
> Phili
|"> 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 pro
> 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
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 t
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