Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk> wrote: > Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than > XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, and it might over-ride XTerm > resources. I have this in my ~/.Xresources: XTerm-color would be used (normally) if you have *customization: -color in your .Xdefaults -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net