Re: changing xterm colors
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:39:28PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl> writes:
>
> > Jamie Griffin wrote:
> >> Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> >>> You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home
> >>> directory (or create it if it does not exist).
> >>>
> >>> Put the following lines in the file:
> >>>
> >>> xterm*VT100*foreground: green
> >>> xterm*VT100*background: black
> >>> xterm*VT100*cursorColor: red
> >
> >> I've tried that and it hasn't worked. Not sure what to try next
> >> - does anyone have any other ideas?
> >
> > This definitely *should* work. If it does not work something weird
> > is the matter. Are you sure your terminal program is xterm? For
> > instance, do you see the "VT Fonts" menu if you do a
> > control-rightclick in the terminal window?
> >
> > Regards, Jan
>
> I missed some of this thread, so this may not be applicable in the above
> case for some reason. But, assuming that the desire is to change the
> values for any xterm, I have used one of the following formats in
> .Xresources or .Xdefaults, and one or the other has always worked:
>
> xterm*background: black
>
> or:
>
> XTerm.background: black
>
> Maybe this will help the OP.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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ok. Still no luck with any of the suggesstions made.
It is definately an xterm - yes i do see the VT Fonts menu when i do a
ctrl > right-click.
even when i do 'xtermset -fg green -bg black -cr blue' i get command not
found.
So far i've edited the file: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color and
created the files, as suggessted, ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources but
nothing has had any effect.
It's not a major issue but i am curious now and kinda would like to find
out how to do this.
Any other ideas guys?
Jamie
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