Re: 256-color xterm

From: Matt Price (matt.price_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 01/31/04

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    On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:36PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
    > Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> 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. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional
    > >> resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available.
    > >>
    >
    > > sorry for coming back so quick, I found some info on the net and
    > > just restarted X with
    > > startx -- :1 -bpp 16
    >
    > That looks right (for some reason I've forgotten, on one of my older boxes I
    > decided to not edit the XF86Config-4 file - probably to see what the automatic
    > configuration & updates would do).
    >
    > But perhaps your XFree86 config-file doesn't have a display defined for that
    > value. Mine's a bit hacked up (adapted settings from other systems my machine
    > boots on since the automatic configuration didn't work well).
    >

    well, I'm at a bit of a loss -- I just went through dpkg-reconfigure
    xserver-xfree86 and checked to make sure that 'depth' sections going
    all the way p to 24 were written into XFConfig86-4 -- no luck! and I
    definitely do have 256 colors enabled on mmy xterm... gaah!

    anyway, not that important, I cna live with 16 colors! Thanks for
    your help,

    matt 

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