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Subject: Re: rxvt Q - colors
In-Reply-To: <19970314092108.29410@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Mar 14, 97 09:21:08 am"
To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:50:56 +0100 (MET)
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> Christoph Kukulies:
>  |*XTerm*color0:  black
>  |*XTerm*color1:  #ffff99997777
> ...
>  |This seems to work find for my xterms but not for rxvts I'm opening.
>  |I havn't yet found a method to tell rxvts to change their colors
>  |
>  |I also created an app-defaults/Rxvt containing that ominous
>  |*customization: -colors to no avail.
> 
> Ah, the problems of global settings and .Xdefaults.  Rxvt has a different
> class name so you'll either want to dup your setting lines and Change the

I should have mentioned that I did that already. Did a strings xrdb
and discovered that the only one starting with a captial letter was Rxvt.
So I tried:

*Rxvt*color0:  black
*Rxvt*color1:  #ffff99999999
*Rxvt*color2:  #9999ffff9999
*Rxvt*color3:  #ffffffff9999
*Rxvt*color4:  #99999999ffff
*Rxvt*color5:  #ffff9999ffff
*Rxvt*color6:  #9999ffffffff
*Rxvt*color7:  #ffffffffffff    

(I also tried - guessing wildly - RXvt as in VT100 - never understood the
magic with these first two CApitals). no avail.


> XTerm to Rxvt in the duped copy (don't forget to "xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults"

Did that explicitly, started a  new rxvt and colors are unchanged.
I start to believe that rxvt doesn't allow for this - OTOH I could UTSL.


> or just exit X and restart it), or put these in separate app-resource files
> off your XAPPLRESDIR or XUSERFILESEARCHPATH (named XTerm [or Color_xterm]
> and Rxvt).
> 
> Randall Hopper
> 

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de