Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms
Cool! Thanks alot!
Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file?
man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :(
Timothy
> Three solutions:
> 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all.
> 2) Modify Xresources to make the xterm that appears with "xterm" be
> what you want; putting the following into ~/.Xresources (and either
> restarting X or running "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources") will do that:
>
> xterm*background: black
> xterm*foreground: white
> xterm*cursorColor: green
>
> (You can put these lines into /etc/X11/Xresources to affect every
> account on your machine)
>
> 3) Modify the menu entry - to do this, you should (as root) copy
> /usr/lib/menu/default/xbase to /etc/menu/xbase and then edit it,
> changing the "xterm" to "xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white" so that
> a portion of that file reads:
>
> ?package(xbase):needs=x11 section=XShells \
> longtitle="Xterm: terminal emulator for X" title=Xterm\
> command="xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white"
>
> You should then (as root) run "update-menus". You can also (if you
> want to make this change just for your account, and not for all the
> others on your system) put the modified xbase file into ~/.menu/xbase
> and run update-menus as your normal (non-root) user.
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E-Mail: timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu
Date: 29-May-98
Time: 15:11:32
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