Terminal colors

Terminal colors

[Russell Shaw]

Hi,
I just installed emacs21 and color-theme.el on debian sid.

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?

Re: Terminal colors

[David Hansen]

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

Re: Terminal colors

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.01.2005 um 08:01 schrieb Russell Shaw:

> In an xterm, color scheme "dark blue" gives a pale washed out
> blue background. Is this because the xterm is only 8 colors?

Not necessarily. Xterm is usually restricted to the eight ANSI colours. 
And the color-there.el package is meant for GNU Emacs running freely as 
an X11 client.

> What would be a good xfree86 terminal emulator with plenty of
> colors?

This month there was a thread about more than eight colours in an 
xterm. It needs a hacked termcap/terminfo entry and, if memory serves 
me well, a CVS version of GNU Emacs. Both, fetching GNU Emacs from CVS, 
configuring and making it plus more than eight ANSI colours can be 
found in the archives, January 2005.

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