From 7ab31e5799afbad7a5ee6d091cd22792c2a91aef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timo Sirainen Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:57:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added "why don't colors work" git-svn-id: http://svn.irssi.org/repos/irssi/trunk@1432 dbcabf3a-b0e7-0310-adc4-f8d773084564 --- docs/faq.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/faq.txt b/docs/faq.txt index 5deb9d9a..bbdffa5e 100644 --- a/docs/faq.txt +++ b/docs/faq.txt @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Q: Why doesn't irssi display colors even when ircii etc. displays them? +A: Irssi uses curses, ircii and others don't (no, not even if ldd says they + use it). Curses decides if terminal supports colors based on the TERM + variable, so changing it should help. Some values to try when running + in xterm are: xterm, xterm-color and color_xterm. + Q: Why does irssi crash when pressing Ctrl-4? A: Most unices are usually configured to send SIGQUIT to active process when Ctrl-\ is pressed. Some terminals also treat Ctrl-4 and Ctrl-\ equally, so