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Re: changin XTerm colors




On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Andreas Rippl wrote:

> 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?

u forgot, didn't know (?) to do: 
	xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
	( it's buried in the docs too )

than
	xterm

and now for fun ..
	- try changing the fonts
	- than colorize your prompts
	- or add /home/rippl#  to the title bar
	- or gazillion billion other silly options

> alias xterm='xterm -bg black -fg white' 
> has always worked fine.

it'd better :-)

c ya
alvin



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