[PATCH] xprop: Add colored icon support

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Andy Spencer wrote:

> * Supports both 16 and 265 color terminals
> * 16 color output supports ascii and utf8 brightness
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Spencer <andy753421 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Here's an updated patch that uses setupterm and tigetnum, it also adds a
> check for curses and term.h in configure.ac..
>
> When I test it in xterm, it says it only supports 8 colors, even though
> running colortest works correctly with all 256 colors so I'm not sure
> what's going on there.

then your $TERM is set incorrectly - you didn't say which emulator you're
using.

For example, it might be xterm-256color, or gnome-256color

(even on Solaris, you can install ncurses's terminfo database,
thereby getting usable data ;-)

> From what I can tell, there's a difference in the color tables for 8
> color and 16 color terminals? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to
> actually test these? (e.g. old terminals that only support 8/16 colors)

There's no reliable way to _ask_ the terminfo what it supports.
(xterm does provide escape sequences, but those are missing or
dummy'd out in other terminal emulators).

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