Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:22:35 -0500 From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@thoroweb.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Brian <brian@imi-bottling.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xterm -- Want Black Background! :) Message-ID: <34E10B6B.18148BF5@thoroweb.com> References: <199802110118.TAA05254@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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shaggy@hod:-> pwd /home/shaggy shaggy@hod:-> cat .Xdefaults XTerm*scrollbar: true XTerm*foreground: white XTerm*background: black shaggy@hod:-> JF David Kelly 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. > > :( > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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