Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 May 2008, Jamie Griffin wrote: [snip] even when i do 'xtermset -fg green -bg black -cr blue' i get command not found. [snip] You need to install xtermset explicitly -- it's a deb package. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian

Re: changing xterm colors [solved]

2008-05-30 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:32:29AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Or it could be that the line: allow-user-resources is not no /etc/X11/Xsession.options. The .Xresources file will only be loaded if that option is present. To test if your .Xresources are working without logging out and

Re: changing xterm colors [solved]

2008-05-30 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote: Ok, i checked /etc/X11/Xsession.options and the line 'allow-user-resources' was there. I installed xtermset using apt which enabled me to change the colors from the command-line as suggested earlier, so that works :-) I have

Re: changing xterm colors [solved]

2008-05-30 Thread Michael Shuler
On 05/30/2008 07:31 AM, Jamie Griffin wrote: whilst i've got this sorted, presumably there is a way to make these changes system-wide - how would i do that? /etc/X11/Xsession defines the system-wide and user Xresources locations, and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources will run all

changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Jamie Griffin
I've been trying to change the colors on my Xterm to have a black background and green text. As i want the settings changed globally, i've tried editing the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color which seemed to be what others had done on other lists, but this hasn't worked. I don't want to

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Jamie Griffin wrote: I've been trying to change the colors on my Xterm to have a black background and green text. You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background: black

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 May 2008, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Thu, 29 May 2008 18:51:43 +0100 Jamie Griffin wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file:

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Jamie Griffin wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background: black xterm*VT100*cursorColor: red I've

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread cothrige
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamie Griffin wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background:

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:39:28PM -0500, cothrige wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamie Griffin wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamie Griffin wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background: