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