Re: mlterm configuration

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I 
> > create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28. And 
> > in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen
> > 
> > 
> Well,
> what you did is just the wrong syntax.
> 
> in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace"
> according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized by mlterm

Thanks, Henning, but I remain bewildered. 

The mlterm man page provides command line options, I find these all 
work and are what I am after:

    -f 20 -
    -g 128x30 
    -bg FAF0E6

There is a section in the manual for a background page and the font 
page, but, oddly, not for the main page. But intstead of providing a 
syntax for the pages, they merely repeat the command line options.

For some reason when I start mlterm, the background color is linen, 
That's what I want, but forget what I did to get it. It been many 
year since I've worried about it. But when I now install a UHD monitor 
I have to make adjustments.