Re: Changing Xterm's Configuration
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:24:27AM +0000, John Lowell wrote:
> Having altered and realtered the appearance of xterm countless times in
> various distros, I'm baffled as to why it is that the standard
> approaches to changing something as simple as foreground color don't
> work in Debian. Using both command line items in the fluxbox menu or by
> creating and editing an ~/.Xdefaults, my xterminal seems impervious to
> positive alteration. I can change -fg to black from white after having
> selected -bg gray, for example, and nothing at all happens. What am I
> missing here?
Having set it, X needs to have its resource database updated with the
xrdb utility. I'm guessing you need to do something like:
$ xrdb --merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
to see the color changes in your terminal.
Hope that helps,
--
Larry Holish
<ljholish at speakeasy.net>
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