Hi all,
Given that GNOME is Sun's forward direction for windowing environments, I
have been trying to use it more often (the photo previewer in Nautilus
makes this easier to do!). The trouble is, as a long-term CDE user, there
are several major road blocks to my doing this.
At the top of the list right now is the fact that dtterm doesn't play nicely
with GNOME, wrt background colours. Like just about every geek I know, I
use green on black with my terminal windows, so to get the effect I want
(i.e., green on black text, with default colours for menus and the scroll
bar) I have the following in my ~/.Xdefaults:
Dtterm*dtTermView*foreground: green
Dtterm*menuBar: false
Dtterm*saveLines: 10000s
Dtterm*geometry: 132x24
In CDE, this works like a charm and I am a happy camper.
However, in GNOME, all is not so well. If I start dtterm now, I get green on
light gray (which seems to be the default background colour in GNOME). Starting
dtterm like this:
dtterm -bg black
gives me green on black, but it also affects the menus and scroll bar (the
former become almost illegible). Is there a way to fix this? ISTR trying
to set Dtterm*dtTermView*background to black a while ago, to no effect.
Or, failing that, is there a way to cajule gnome-terminal to use the same
font as dtterm? I'm currently using Lucida Sans Typewriter at 9 points,
but I find the interline gap too wide. I'm pretty sure that getting
gnome-terminal to use the same font as dtterm will fix this, which will
take me one step closer to being a GNOME user (but there are many steps
to go!).
TIA,
--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
President,
Rite Online Inc.
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