I'm, um, a bit behind on this list. My apologies.
On 22 January 01, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 22, Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> >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.
> What about memory usage?
That's the only drawback I know of. 256-color xterm uses one additional
byte per character. With all the internationalization and wide-font
support that's been done over the past year or so, that's a smaller
percent increase than it was when I wrote the support. (I have another
version of the patches that give true truecolor support, if you're
willing to give up another 4 bytes per character. I never bothered to
submit that version.)
According to the changelog, a change was made 2000/2/26 to initialize
colors when they're first used, not at startup. I haven't looked at the
code recently, but as far as I know that's still the case, so 8-bit
displays shouldn't have problems unless they actually use the colors.
I'm glad other people are using this. I was hoping it would be default
by XFree 4.0.
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