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. -- Todd Larason| "Take me home, take me to the zona rosa, mariachis |UIN: 8070783 ------------+ and tequila, I will dance the night alone. Just +------------ some time, just a little piece of mind, take me where I can forget, senor you are so very kind."
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