Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:18:28 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Brian" <brian@imi-bottling.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xterm -- Want Black Background! :) Message-ID: <199802110118.TAA05254@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Brian" <brian@imi-bottling.com> of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:32:54 PST." <003701bd365a$af7c7e10$01010101@brian>
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> 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
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