# sorry if this gets posted twice, but the other account was not a subscribed to this list. # so mod may have passed it along For the past 3 days I've been looking for a way to get more color from terminals. a good example to explain is, on shrike open a file on both gvim and vim and look at how the colors differ with the same colorscheme. I read that by default xterm in X is built with 16 color support so i downloaded xterm and added --enable-256-color to the options and installing. My xterm now has 256 according to this command: strings /usr/local/bin/xterm | grep ^color[0-9] | sort -tr +1 -n So why is rxvt, xterm, gnome-term, etc still only displaying 16 colors? I tested with the test scripts xterm tarball supplied, aswell as colortest.vim The command will display 24 lines which should be all different colors but things like lightcyan and cyan look exactly the same leaving me to think it is still 16 and 'faking' it with light/dark. Does a full recompile of X need to be done just for this? thanks 233 MHz 64 MB ram 4mb voodoo card
