On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I > > create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28. And > > in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen > > > > > Well, > what you did is just the wrong syntax. > > in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace" > according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized by mlterm
Thanks, Henning, but I remain bewildered. The mlterm man page provides command line options, I find these all work and are what I am after: -f 20 - -g 128x30 -bg FAF0E6 There is a section in the manual for a background page and the font page, but, oddly, not for the main page. But intstead of providing a syntax for the pages, they merely repeat the command line options. For some reason when I start mlterm, the background color is linen, That's what I want, but forget what I did to get it. It been many year since I've worried about it. But when I now install a UHD monitor I have to make adjustments.