>>>>> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than >> XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, and it might over-ride XTerm >> resources. I have this in my ~/.Xresources:
> VT100 is the class name for the vt100 widget which is under the XTerm > window. >> *VT100*background: xtermbg > The asterisks tell Xt to apply that to anything with an application name > "background" anywhere under anything with a class name of VT100. One > could have an application with multiple levels containing the same class > name. If you know the actual hierarchy, a "." works better since it is > more specific, and overrides a wildcard in the same position which might > be set in the system's app-defaults file (or by xrdb). Most use of xrdb > is misguided (but it does reduce the amount of work the desktop people > do ;-) I see, thank you for the information here and in your other post. Those settings are ancient in my .Xresources file, the whole file is covered in dust, in fact. Looks like I should give it a spring clean. Regards, -- Jim Ottaway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
