Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-31 Thread Mike Burns
On 2017-07-30 23.37.07 -0700, jungle boogie wrote: > $ cat .xinitrc > xsetroot -solid gray40 (does the 40 actually do anything? I've seen a few > examples with numbers after it) That color name comes from /usr/X11R6/share/X11/rgb.txt : $ grep gray40 /usr/X11R6/share/X11/rgb.txt 102 102 102

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-31 Thread GSO
xterm popup menus: Ctrl + left mouse button Ctrl + right mouse button The latter gives font size options. On 31 July 2017 at 00:06, jungle boogie wrote: > Hello, > > > I have some cwm questions for you folks. > > cwm is launching, but it's not setting my background to gray. > I thought I made t

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-31 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 31, 2017 8:37:07 AM GMT+02:00, jungle boogie wrote: >Thus said Jungle Boogie on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:06:06 -0700 >> Hello, >> >> >> I have some cwm questions for you folks. >> >> cwm is launching, but it's not setting my background to gray. >> I thought I made the change correctly. >>

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-31 Thread Muhammad Kaisar Arkhan
>xsetroot -solid gray40 (does the 40 actually do anything? I've seen a >few examples with numbers after it) I think you can pass an 8-bit color value \ (the ones you see on HTML/CSS, like "#EE") Thanks, Muhammad Kaisar Arkhan

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-30 Thread jungle boogie
Thus said Jungle Boogie on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:06:06 -0700 Hello, I have some cwm questions for you folks. cwm is launching, but it's not setting my background to gray. I thought I made the change correctly. $ cat .xsession /usr/X11R6/bin/cwm xsetroot -solid grey & oclock -geometry 75x75-0-

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-30 Thread Muhammad Kaisar Arkhan
>Is there a way to change the console font to something a little larger? >fontname seems to change for menus only. Depends on which terminal emulator you're running. If you're using xterm/urxvt, you change them in .Xresources \ and load them with xrdb -m ~/. Xresources Thanks, Muhammad Kaisar Ark

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-30 Thread Mihai Popescu
>Is there a way to change the console font to something a little larger? >fontname seems to change for menus only. If you mean xterm by console, then you need to use something like this in your .cwmrc command xterm "xterm -fg white -bg black -fa monospace -fs 13 +sb"

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-30 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 31, 2017 1:06:06 AM GMT+02:00, jungle boogie wrote: >Hello, > > >I have some cwm questions for you folks. > >cwm is launching, but it's not setting my background to gray. >I thought I made the change correctly. > >$ cat .xsession > > > >/usr/X11R6/bin/cwm Shell waits here for cwm to