Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:31:45 -0500
From: Buz Barstow <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Subject: Changing xterm colors in Leopard
Hi,
Does anyone know how to change the background and text colors in the
Leopard X11 xterm program? I would like to change the colors from
their default black text on white, to green text on black.
The old-fashioned UNIX way to do this was with .Xresources. In your
home directory, create a .Xresources file, which gets read on starting
of X11, put the customizations you want in there:
-- cut here --
#define FONT -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*font: FONT
xterm*background: black
xterm*foreground: green
xterm*cursorColor: green
xterm*colorMode: true
xterm*colorRVMode: false
xterm*colorUL: Cyan
xterm*colorBD: LimeGreen
-- end cut --
This worked in Tiger, it's broken in Leopard. I've filed a (duplicate)
bug on this. If you start a new xterm from the spawned xterm, it will
have the right settings.
You can find the colors X11 knows about from /usr/X11/share/X11/rgb.txt
The settable resources can be found in the xterm man page.
--
Michael Parson
email@hidden
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