Re: changin XTerm colors
On Fre, November 18, 2005 11:20, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
>> Am 2005-11-12 08:58:23, schrieb John L Fjellstad:
>>> 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).
>
>> Weird, becasue I have a directory called ~/.Xresources and there I
>> have the file
>
> Perhaps you have something like
> export XAPPLRESDIR=~/.Xresources
> in your initialization script.
The background and foreground properties should be lowercase I think.
You could also try something like this, which works for all applications
that use the VT100-widget:
*.VT100.background: white
*.VT100.foreground: black
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Regards,
Allan
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