From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 11 11:58:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE7C1548E for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk ([194.222.242.30]) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 1287RJ-000PJn-0U for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:58:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 4580 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Jan 2000 19:34:39 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:34:39 +0000 From: George Cox To: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk Cc: Micke Josefsson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xterm config short question Message-ID: <20000111193439.A578@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <00256863.00489F7D.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <00256863.00489F7D.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk>; from Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:12:43PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11/01 13:12, Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote: > All you have to do is add this line to your profile file (.profile) Who said he was using a Bourne shell derivative? > alias xterm="xterm -fg yellow -w 20 -bg black -rv" > > This will do this for you and you only. This is probably not the 100% best > solution but it will work. There's something in one of the dot-files > regarding resources. I'm more of a console man though :-) This is indeed a poor solution. See my other reply for the proper way to set up X resources. gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message