Re: Making 256 color Xterm support the default.
Hi,
At Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:56:13 -0500 (EST),
Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Most display's now are 16 or 24 bit. While with 8-bit displays, it makes
> sense to minimize the number of colors that an xterm ANSI terminal uses,
> that reasoning doesn't apply anymore.
I don't think so, especially for laptop computers.
And more, I imagine a certain amount of Linux users prefer
secondhand computers.
> So, unless there are a signifigant number of users who are limited to
> 8-bit displays, I propose that we consider making 256-color xterms the
> default.
Can you improve XTerm to switch color mode not by compilation option
but by run-time option and X resource?
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