Re: changin XTerm colors

[Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk>]

>>>>> Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> writes:

> 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:

> VT100 is the class name for the vt100 widget which is under the XTerm
> window.

>> *VT100*background:  xtermbg

> The asterisks tell Xt to apply that to anything with an application name
> "background" anywhere under anything with a class name of VT100.  One
> could have an application with multiple levels containing the same class
> name.  If you know the actual hierarchy, a "." works better since it is
> more specific, and overrides a wildcard in the same position which might
> be set in the system's app-defaults file (or by xrdb).  Most use of xrdb
> is misguided (but it does reduce the amount of work the desktop people
> do ;-)

I see, thank you for the information here and in your other
post.  Those settings are ancient in my .Xresources file, the whole
file is covered in dust, in fact.  Looks like I should give it a
spring clean.

Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway