From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Terminal colors Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:15:52 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87pszncm5z.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107077303 28223 80.91.229.6 (30 Jan 2005 09:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 30 10:28:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CvBNR-0001Up-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:28:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvBa2-0005XP-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:41:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: individual.net yuYCgX2twAbpu19wgyMj9Qut4Dh9oLT1pSkE3fONK+WKJ9mbw= X-Orig-Path: robotron.ath.cx!news Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aLbp+//ozJwoYCOaU7O9xHHQxmg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128244 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23749 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23749 On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:01:34 +1100 Russell Shaw wrote: > In an xterm, color scheme "dark blue" gives a pale washed out > blue background. Is this because the xterm is only 8 colors? > What would be a good xfree86 terminal emulator with plenty of > colors? Debians xterm is compiled with only 16 colors support (8 of them for bold). You can compile xterm yourself with 256 colors support. But i think you need emacs from CVS to use all these colors. And as far as i remember screen has problems with 256 colors and other attributes like bold and underline (if someone solved these issues i would be glad to read about it). David