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oldefortran
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 Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject: how to change xterm look |
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How can I get xterm to have a black background and non-black text?
Colours are great when runnning emerge, but not readable on a white background. |
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Topo
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Have a look at the manpage!
As far as I can remember there is -bg for background color ...
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oldefortran
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Topo wrote: | Have a look at the manpage!
As far as I can remember there is -bg for background color ...
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Yes, and how do I set it to be the default for all xterm? Should I use an alias? |
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Topo
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That could be one solution depending on your Window Manager!
I'm using Fluxbox and there I just had to add the options to the ~/.fluxbox/menu file! so all the xterm I open with the menu bar automatically have this layout!
Can't help you for other window manager,sorry!  |
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oldefortran
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Topo wrote: | That could be one solution depending on your Window Manager!
I'm using Fluxbox and there I just had to add the options to the ~/.fluxbox/menu file! so all the xterm I open with the menu bar automatically have this layout!
Can't help you for other window manager,sorry! |
Isn't there a global "menu" file for all window managers? Do I have to keep the menus uptodate for each window manager, and each user has to do this by themself also? |
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Painkiller
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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-ls -bg white -fg green
you can make a shorcut in this way
xterm -ls -bg white -fg green
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vvlly
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You can put settings in the .Xdefaults file in your home directory. I've actually got it stored in .Xresources and .Xdefaults is sym linked to it. Can't remember why now. Mine is below
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XTerm*foreground: grey90
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*font: 9x15
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*borderColor: black
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if you look at the man page for xterm (I use rxvt, but it uses xterm's settings) with some of the flags it mentions resources. This is how you use them. You might need have to have a line
in your .xinitrc (if you use startx) or session file or something for your WM to have it run when you start X. You can also call that command to make settings apply to new terminal windows without restarting X. I think if you have a .Xdefaults you don't need this. I can't remember though. |
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