Hmm.. how about adding this XTerm*termname: xterm-color stuff to a default
Xresources file in /usr/share/skel/, or to some default Xresources file
in the X directory tree itself? (I haven't messed with X resources too
much, guess it shows ;)
This would break xterms running on monochrome monitors; tunable via
a question in sysinstall?
G'luck,
Pencheff
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Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word.
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:14:33AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > >> XTerm*termName: xterm-color
> > >
> > > Ok, that's a good solution, I was just using .bashrc. My point is not
> > > so much why, but that it be properly documented. Do you want to handle
> > > the update of the ls man page, or do you want me to PR a patch?
> >
> > Umm, honestly, this shouldn't be all that non-obvious. Do you expect
> > ls -G to work on a monochrome monitor? Of course not. :P The xterm
> > termcap is by default a monochrome terminal. sysinstall doesn't have
> > color in an xterm either w/ term=xterm.
>
> This is obvious to you and me, but to a newer user it's not going to be
> obvious at all. There is going to be a bunch of people who write into
> the mailing lists wondering why they aren't seeing the colorized ls in
> their xterms.
>
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