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NAME
color_xterm - color terminal emulator for X
DESCRIPTION
Color_xterm is essentially the same as xterm(1). The main differences
are described below.
ISO 6429 color text support.
In addition to the Escape sequences supported by xterm, color_xterm
supports the following sequences:
ESC [ 3 Ps m
Set the text foreground to color Ps.
ESC [ 4 Ps m
Set the text background to color Ps.
According to ISO 6429, the colors are given by:
0) black
1) red
2) green
3) yellow
4) blue
5) magenta
6) cyan
7) white
The actual colors that color_xterm uses are customizable as the X
resources "color0", "color1", etc.
Color_xterm includes the 'Dynamic Colors' patch by Erik Fortune
(erik@esd.sgi.com). This allows you to change the foreground,
background, etc. colors dynamically using the "ESC ] Ps ; name BEL"
escape sequence, where Ps determines the color to change and name is
the name of the color to change it to.
Ps = 10: Foreground
11: Background
12: Cursor
13: Mouse cursor foreground
14: Mouse cursor background
15: Tek window foreground
16: Tek window background
For example, to change the text color to white, you could go
echo "^[]10;white^G"
The dynamic colors are controlled using the -dc/+dc command line
option or the *dynamicColor X resource.
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The UGCS color_xterm contains the Cursor Warp patch. If the
cursorWarpTranslation X resource is set to an X event, then whenever
the color_xterm receives the event, the terminal generates the cursor
movement keys to move the text cursor to the mouse cursor.
The UGCS color_xterm supports the -jobs option, which disables
termination upon receipt of a SIGCHILD. This is generally only useful
with the -e option.
AUTHORS
of xterm:
Far too many people, including:
Loretta Guarino Reid, Joel McCormack, Terry Weissman, Edward Moy,
Ralph R. Swick, Mark Vandevoorde, Bob McNamara, Jim Gettys, Bob
Scheifler, Doug Minki, Steve Pitschke, Ron Newman, Jim Fulton, Dave
Serisky
of color_xterm:
Tom Weinstein, Erik Fortune, Paul Shupak
Manual page, UGCS hacks and maintaince courtesy of
Jacob Mandelson (jlm@ugcs.caltech.edu).
NOTICE
Color_xterm is derived from xterm, whose copyright requires the
following to appear in the documentation:
Copyright 1987, 1988 by Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard,
Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the names of Digital or MIT not be
used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
software without specific, written prior permission.
DIGITAL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
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EVENT SHALL DIGITAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
(Uh, same goes for me, too. -- JLM)
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