I use the .Xdefaults (rather than .Xresources) file in my home directory.
For the colors, this works fine. Some of the other options are broken but
being worked on) in Leopard.
On 11/8/07 7:45 AM, "Michael Parson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
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