On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > ~/.Xresources file: > XTerm*Background: black > XTerm*Foreground: white > > But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to > XTerm manual, this should work. Oh, and I tried changing the names > (Background to background etc. No effect). > -- > John L. Fjellstad > web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi John,
the .Xdefaults solution is probably the preferred way to solve your
problem, but for me an alias in my .bashrc like
alias xterm='xterm -bg black -fg white'
has always worked fine.
Hth
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