How do I change the background color of xterm permanently?
How do I go about changing the background color of xterm permanently so that next time I run xterm, it'll have the bg' color I chose?
Thanks, vxc |
man xtermset
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Thanks for the reply bigrigdriver! :)
xtermset allows me to change the bg color dynamically. But, I would like to know if it is possible to change the bg color permanently so that I don't have to change it everytime I use xterm. Thanks again, vxc |
I tried what mrcheeks had said in this thread.
I can change the cursor color and the font size using mrcheeks method. The bg and foreground colors don't seem to change. This is my XTerm file: Code:
XTerm*background: black |
Please re-examine man xtermset. The -store option should store the options you want in .xtermsetrc in your home directory.
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xtermset uses the .xtermsetrc file only when I use the '-default' flag. Unfortunately I cannot use it to change my xterm settings permanently. vxc |
In case you don't have xtermset (ie: Fedora Core 3), you can edit the.Xdefaults file in your home directory. Look at /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm for example settings.
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another simple way is to alias xterm with xterm -bg <something>....
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works well for me too
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it should be either in ~/.Xdefaults or in ~/.Xresources. On my system .Xresources does NOT get parsed automatically, so i need to add a call for it 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources' to my autostart file. you can also try various permutations of capitalization, on my system 'xterm*background' seems to work, or even '*background'. edit: Sh!t, another necrobump! |
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