On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my
> ~/.Xresources file:
> XTerm*Background: black
> XTerm*Foreground: white
>
> But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to
> XTerm manual, this should work. Oh, and I tried changing the names
> (Background to background etc. No effect).
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Hi John,
the .Xdefaults solution is probably the preferred way to solve your
problem, but for me an alias in my .bashrc like
alias xterm='xterm -bg black -fg white'
has always worked fine.
Hth
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