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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:22:35 -0500
From:      Joshua Fielden <shaggy@thoroweb.com>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Brian <brian@imi-bottling.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xterm -- Want Black Background! :)
Message-ID:  <34E10B6B.18148BF5@thoroweb.com>
References:  <199802110118.TAA05254@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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shaggy@hod:-> pwd
/home/shaggy
shaggy@hod:-> cat .Xdefaults
XTerm*scrollbar:        true
XTerm*foreground:       white
XTerm*background:       black
shaggy@hod:-> 


JF


David Kelly wrote:
> 
> > I've done "man xterm", and looked elsewhere, but either I'm completely
> > missing it or I can't find how to change xterm's background in Xfree86 to
> > black instead of white.  I do a lot of telnet'ing into places that use ANSI
> > color, and cyan, yellow, etc just do not stand out on a white background.
> > :(
> 
> You might add the following to a new file named ~/XTerm (~/.xterm might
> work, or ~/.XTerm, found ~/XTerm worked completely by accident). Or
> append them to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm for system wide
> defaults:
> 
> *foreground:    black
> *background:    grey
> *scrollBar:     true
> *scrollLines:   1024
> *cursorColor:   yellow
> 
> Seems as there are some other color related parameters in there too. I
> have underlining mapped to yellow without underlines. "*scrollLines"
> isn't doing what I'd like it to do. Still only have a 200 line scroll
> buffer.
> 
> Greg's FreeBSD book suggests "set term=xterm-color" and I see there is
> an XTerm-color in the app-defaults directory. First attempt just now to
> see how it works, didn't. But then again I wasn't following Greg's
> instructions.
> 
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
> =====================================================================
> The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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