From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 9 10: 4:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from duval.se.mediaone.net (duval.se.mediaone.net [24.129.0.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1146B37B423 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mediaone.net (dtq-74-190.jacksonville.net [24.129.74.190]) by duval.se.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA04164 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:04:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39BA6E67.EF164CBE@mediaone.net> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 13:07:52 -0400 From: bentley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: xterm editing & recompiling... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG is this the right place to write in a question for a recompile of xterm? i don't know anything about unix...i only know that the xterm/s white back ground is irritating my eyes. and i don't want to keep typing in 1 ) [xterm -bg grey -fg black] i know that under 1) usr/ports/x11/xtermset there are files that would let me possibly edit the source code & reompile this program with the desired effects mentioned above. am i in the right area? & it shouldn't be hard right? i just have to look for that line of code in the source code? goal here is: 1) just the directory (and location of it) so i can get there. 2) how exactly (basic terms) does a newbie with no experience in editing / scripting / coding make make this work? i don't need detailed ideas or anything. ... i mean...which editor. basically. because then i would just save it, & recompile. i imagine. hodgepodge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message