Re: [Nolug] XTerm

At 05:06 PM 1/25/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>HOW-TOs that might deal with this, I still have no answer. My problem is
>that the Xterm is blinding me with its white background and
>yellow/green/otherwise aggrivating colors. And the text is awful thin...
>I'd love a system style font... anyway. I've gone to using TWM for my X
>system, because KDE doesn't really run well with 64M of ram and a wimpy 233
>Pentium MMX processor. What I would like to know how to do is set the

You need to setup your X resources for xterm. Create a file named
$HOME/.Xdefaults and enter the following:

XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*geometry: 120x30

These entries will create a white on black xterm with a geometry of 120x30.
Next, you either need to restart your X session or just run xrdb:

$ xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults

Now open a new xterm and you should be using better colors. As a side note,
I've found that rxvt is easier to read than xterm. Anyway, for more
information on customizing xterm use 'man xterm' and pay attention to
anything labeled as a "resource."

Regards, Dustin

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Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net>
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