From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 11:39:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29657 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mhv.net (root@spice.mhv.net [199.0.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29586 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgraffam@mhv.net) From: mgraffam@mhv.net Received: from localhost (phundie@port140.mhv.net [206.229.41.68]) by mhv.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA25710; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:38:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:32:29 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: phundie@localhost To: Brian cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xterm -- Want Black Background! :) In-Reply-To: <003701bd365a$af7c7e10$01010101@brian> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Brian wrote: > I've done "man xterm", and looked elsewhere, but either I'm completely > missing it or I can't find how to change xterm's background in Xfree86 to > black instead of white. I do a lot of telnet'ing into places that use ANSI > color, and cyan, yellow, etc just do not stand out on a white background. > :( color_xterm -fg white -bg black foreground white background black As for replacements. I like rxvt. The newest version of rxvt will allow specifying pixmaps for the background (think of Web page backgrounds). Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc "..subordination of one sex to the other is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.." John Stuart Mill "The Subjection of Women" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNOCrUgKEiLNUxnAfAQEUdgP+MXULygFGRo9GnDmji57ls/WNZLy7JSxt r+tDVfJZemvzIynrKHxZGp9mMcZjtSH8ZLHykMwY9swM8wGi5pgDrOuDrrLoXLvP zTUB9qZ/5LLRAjvHq070WrUr5C2sksUqdTi9RRHDQ1Tw+huejti/jEqdqWmG0Yvi mxVj9lFTLfI= =U9Ko -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message