Re: xterm ignores Xresources when run as x-terminal-emulator

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes:

> I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as
> xterm.foreground=white
> ...
> when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater
> when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for
> x-terminal-emulator doesn't seem to help.
> how do I set the Xresources for x-terminal-emulator ?

You could set a couple of things:

  ! set foreground for x-terminal-emulator, too
  x-terminal-emulator.foreground: white

  ! set background for all xterms, regardless of name
  XTerm.background: black

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