Just about ready to pull the last remaining hairs on my head. All I
want is a black background with light text in my xterms. The only way I
can get it is by putting 'xterm -bg black -fg grey90' in ~/.fluxbox/menu.
I must confess that, by those last remaining hairs on my head, I did
something yesterday that changed my black background and light text back
to the defaults of white background with black text--don't know what I
did. I have all the other color stuff working--ls looks pretty and so
does vim.
With all of the following I still didn't get what I wanted until I
changed the menu:
Appropriate part of ~/.Xdefaults:
XTerm*VT100*colorFG: grey90
XTerm*VT100*colorBG: black
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
! Uncomment this to use color for the bold attribute
XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on
XTerm*VT100*colorBD: blue
! Uncomment this to use color for underline attribute
XTerm.VT100*colorULMode: on
XTerm.VT100*underLine: off
XTerm*VT100*colorUL: magenta
! Uncomment this to display the scrollbar
XTerm*scrollBar: true
Edited output of 'appres XTerm'
XTerm.VT100*colorULMode: on
XTerm.VT100*underLine: off
XTerm.VT100.titeInhibit: true
XTerm.VT100*dynamicColors: on
XTerm*VT100*colorUL: magenta
XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on
XTerm*VT100*colorBG: black
XTerm*VT100*colorBD: blue
XTerm*VT100*colorFG: grey90
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color and uncommented
the appropriate lines to read:
! Uncomment this for "white" text on a dark background.
VT100*foreground: gray90
VT100*background: black
All this stuff told me that I should have a black background with light
text. But I didn't until, as I said, I put the xterm command line
options in the fluxbox menu. I know I've "succeeded" with xterm, but
what if I want to modify the resources of something else? I've spent
most of the morning reading man pages: xterm, X, Xorg, fluxbox and still
can't figure out what I'm missing. Can anyone point me in the right
direction? Barring that, I need a stiff dose of the 'clue bat.'
Thanks,
Dan
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