From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 17:54:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29103 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:54:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28978 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:53:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-26.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.26]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA02900; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:53:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA05254; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:18:28 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802110118.TAA05254@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Brian" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Xterm -- Want Black Background! :) In-reply-to: Message from "Brian" of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:32:54 PST." <003701bd365a$af7c7e10$01010101@brian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:18:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > :( You might add the following to a new file named ~/XTerm (~/.xterm might work, or ~/.XTerm, found ~/XTerm worked completely by accident). Or append them to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm for system wide defaults: *foreground: black *background: grey *scrollBar: true *scrollLines: 1024 *cursorColor: yellow Seems as there are some other color related parameters in there too. I have underlining mapped to yellow without underlines. "*scrollLines" isn't doing what I'd like it to do. Still only have a 200 line scroll buffer. Greg's FreeBSD book suggests "set term=xterm-color" and I see there is an XTerm-color in the app-defaults directory. First attempt just now to see how it works, didn't. But then again I wasn't following Greg's instructions. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message