Re: Colors in XTerm

[Thomas Dickey <dickey%his.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, elijah rutschman wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am running NetBSD 4.0 on a MobilePro 780 and am having trouble
> getting colors working in XTerms; they are all black text on a white
> background.
...
> Does anyone notice something missing?  Does anyone know if what I want
> to do is unsupported in the 4.0 hpcmips port's default XTerm?

that sounds like a very small machine (not much memory and/or limited 
display).  Does the background have color?  (I'd suppose so), but it's
also possible that the color map is limited, and other apps took enough
that xterm gives up on colors.

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