Re: prpoer way to change preferences for xterm
Re: prpoer way to change preferences for xterm
- Subject: Re: prpoer way to change preferences for xterm
- From: Federico Calboli <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:27:00 +0200
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 18:03, Michael Jinks <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Yep, that's the way. I'm attaching my current copy in case it's useful.
Thanks! how do I get the fonts to look decent? it looks like they badly need anti aliasing or something, because they all look terrible, no matter which fint I choose.
Best
F
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> You'll notice that there are two different lists of my color preferences ("xterm" vs "XTerm"), and it seems that as I go from host to host, OS to OS, release to release, which of those versions works has switched from one to the other and back again. I'm sure there's an explanation for why, but I just keep both in my standard $HOME layout, as a brute force way of preventing the change from happening again.
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> Hope it helps.
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:33 AM, Federico Calboli <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I would like to change the default behaviour of xterm (i.e. font and colour). I am not really sure what is the *proper* way of doing so on OS X 10.11.x (El Capitan). Should I create a .Xdefaults in my /home and put my prefs there? any other way?
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> Cheers
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> F
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