Aterm

ar1 · 04-15-2004, 10:09 PM

I've gone through several threads on how to change aterm's default colors, but none of the solutions have helped:

I've read that the default settings should be put in ~/.Xdefaults
Also, I've read that if you start aterm from the terminal with options for colors, it always overrides the default settings in .Xdefaults.

Well I did exactly that, I ran aterm with options specified at the terminal. Now I want it to use the default settings in .Xdefaults

Can someone please tell me how to do so?

Thanks

DrOzz · 04-15-2004, 10:50 PM

so are you saying that when you simply run "aterm" without options, that it is now not
reading the settings in the .Xdefaults file ?

ar1 · 04-16-2004, 01:23 AM

Yes, DrOzz, that's exactly what happens!

ar1 · 04-16-2004, 01:24 AM

HOWEVER, to be honest, I don't quite know for sure if it used to read the settings earlier, since I haven't been using linux for too long..

I just assumed it doesn't read now because I ran aterm with the options from the terminal, since that's what other posts said.

thanks

DrOzz · 04-16-2004, 10:35 AM

so what do you want the outcome to be ?
do you wanna read from the .Xdefaults, or not ?
what are the colors you want ?

put something like this :

Quote:

aterm*cursorColor: yellow

and if the cursor color in the termainl changes to yellow then you will plainly see
that it is correctly reading the .Xdefaults file ..

ar1 · 04-16-2004, 01:18 PM

Yes, I wanna read from .Xdefaults

But your solution does not work, DrOzz, it does not read. I get a black cursor.

thanks

Wi1d · 04-17-2004, 12:59 AM

are you using artwiz fonts? I've noticed the cursor stay black with that type of font for some reason.

Match · 04-19-2004, 10:48 AM

I'm also a newbie to Linux, but I think you need to load ~/.Xdefaults when you start X. Try running "xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults" Now open up a new aterm. If this fixed things then add that line to ~/.xsession so it will load every time you start X.

Aeiri · 04-19-2004, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Match
I'm also a newbie to Linux, but I think you need to load ~/.Xdefaults when you start X. Try running "xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults" Now open up a new aterm. If this fixed things then add that line to ~/.xsession so it will load every time you start X.

No, you don't need to do that.

ar1 · 04-19-2004, 03:10 PM

Thanks, Match!!

It Worked...