Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread -Patrick
This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects productivity. I would like to know how I can change the background-color of the X- bash shell. So when I do 'startx' at the cygwin shell, I get the X terminal, which leads to programs like ddd, emacs etc. etc. This terminal's background

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, -Patrick wrote: This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects productivity. I would like to know how I can change the background-color of the X- bash shell. So when I do 'startx' at the cygwin shell, I get the X terminal, which leads to programs like ddd,

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread -Patrick
As far as the resource file, that would be ideal for setting default values? Please oblige as to where it's located...? Thanks! -Patrick Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, -Patrick wrote: This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects productivity. I would like to

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, -Patrick wrote: As far as the resource file, that would be ideal for setting default values? Please oblige as to where it's located...? something like (am not where I can check) /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults The files for

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread -Patrick
Thanks Tom, The former ended up being a symbolic link to the latter. So I made changes to the latter, specifically uncommented 'light foreground, dark background' settings. Closed everything out and did 'startx' to find that nothing was changed - I still had a light background with dark

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 03:45 -0400, -Patrick wrote: This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects productivity. I would like to know how I can change the background-color of the X- bash shell. So when I do 'startx' at the cygwin shell, I get the X terminal, which leads to

RE: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Crombie
Thanks for the information about changing the defaults for X-term windows. How can I amend this to get scroll bars to appear? And can you set the default window size there as well? Grateful for any advice. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Randy Brown
-sb makes the scroll bars appear. -sb rightbar moves the scroll bars to the right hand side. *-geom 90x30+140+80*. This will produce a window 90 units wide by 30 units tall, 140 units from the left edge of the screen and 80 units from the top edge of the screen. You will have to adjust these

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Randy Brown
Ignore the asterisks around the -geom option. Randy Brown wrote: -sb makes the scroll bars appear. -sb rightbar moves the scroll bars to the right hand side. *-geom 90x30+140+80*. This will produce a window 90 units wide by 30 units tall, 140 units from the left edge of the screen and 80

RE: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:18 +0100, Simon Crombie wrote: Thanks for the information about changing the defaults for X-term windows. How can I amend this to get scroll bars to appear? And can you set the default window size there as well? Grateful for any advice. -- Unsubscribe

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Duane Krings
The best way to do this is to edit (or create) the .Xdefaults file in your home directory. something like the following: begin .Xdefaults *XTerm*background: red *XTerm*foreground: white *XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x40 *XTerm*scrollBar: true end