Re: X graphics

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

xterm shouldn't be difficult to compile from source. It's very strange
that Ubuntu didn't turn on 256-color support. Google for 256colors2.pl

Since it's an option, it's up to the packager.

and run that in your xterm, you should see a definite difference in the
6 color squares. (konsole now seems to support 256 colors, something
that wasn't true a few years ago....)

They added xterm 256-color support a year ago (it's incomplete - uses a
hardcoded palette - but is usable if you're not picky).

The same comment applies to pterm (which - looking at ps's output - uses
about 60% more memory than xterm configured for 256-colors).

gnome-terminal implements a hardcoded 88-color palette (still based on xterm).
Like konsole, it uses (even) more memory but comes with prettier menus.

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