Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:52:38 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xterm config short question Message-ID: <200001111352.OAA30998@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <85f9nv$25o9$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Where do I change X's default behaviour so that every xterm is started as
>
> xterm -fg yellow -w 20 -bg black -rv
>
> withou me having to enter that every time. I have a script for it now,
> but there must be a better place (a dot-file i my $HOME?)?
Add the following lines to your $HOME/.Xdefaults:
*VT100.foreground: yellow
*VT100.background: black
*VT100.reverseVideo: true
Don't know about the -w option, it doesn't seem to have any
effect on my machine. Anyway, refer to ``man xterm'' for a
list of all the resource settings.
If there's no .Xdefaults file in your home directory, simply
create one. If it is not sure, place the following command
at an appropriate place somewhere in your X startup scripts
(executing it multiple times doesn't hurt):
xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
That's it. I'd recommend against using an alias or a wrapper
shell script. That's not the way it is meant to work.
Regards
Oliver
--
Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
"In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"
(Terry Pratchett)
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200001111352.OAA30998>