Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:09:21 +0100 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) To: june@adn.edu.ph (Francis Percival C. Favoreal) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freebsd-questions) Subject: Re: X Windows colors Message-ID: <Mutt.19961210110921.kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961210144911.19339A-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph>; from Francis Percival C. Favoreal on Dec 10, 1996 14:51:21 %2B0800 References: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961210144911.19339A-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph>
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Francis Percival C. Favoreal writes: > > How do I change some color settings in X Windows? Like change the window > background, foreground, text forground, text background, and other windows > related color settings just like in Microsoft Windows? You should get one of the O'Reilly books on X, e.g. XWindows System Administration. Also you could read man pages on the various applications. There are several ways to do such things in X. One is to write the appropriate resources into your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file, like: XTerm*cursorColor: #f03090 Xterm*Background: gold1 Xterm*Foreground: black Another method is using command line options like: xterm -cr magenta -fn terminal18 -fg green -bg black -sb -ls -geometry \ 80x24+0+0 -name login > > Thankx. > > -- > june > System Administrator > Adnet > > > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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