Getting color to work with an xterm

[Alun Territt]

Hi,

I'm using an NT workstation, with Exceed 9.0.

I'd like to connect to our hp-ux 11.11 server
and get a color xterm. But whatever I do,
the session is always black and white.

I've pored all over the Exceed client, and it
seems fine. Then I read somewhere that not
all xterm servers support color.
Do I need to do something to the hp-ux
machine?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Regards.

Paul Stuart

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Should work

try

/usr/bin/X11/xterm -fg red -bg white

If that works then look at

whence xterm

or

alias|grep xterm

Maybe defined to be in blackwhite by a command or alias

Steve Steel

[Alun Territt]

Thanks for the quick response Steve.

When I do that, the xterm does indeed
become white and red.

But the xterm itself doesn't become color, in the sense that it doesn't respond to
color escape sequences.

For instance, I have a color prompt and
normally VIM is in color. That works on
an ordinary telnet vt100. But not in the
xterm.

Paul S

[Jan Sladky]

Hi Paul,
after connecting on hp-ux, enter following command

xterm -bg red -fg blue

it will start new xterm with desired collors

br Jan

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Could be the Exceed since my reflection is OK


Try dtterm

/usr/bin/X11/dtterm -display $DISPLAY -tn vt100 -fg darkgreen -bg khaki -bs -bw
200 -fn courB24 -fb courB24 -kshMode -ls -mb -sb -sl 2000 -ms red -nb 10 & 2>/d
ev/null


Steve Steel

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Some boxes do not work

Try to see if

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/xterm.html

Will help


Steve Steel

[Alun Territt]

Thanks Steve. dtterm works.

Paul S