On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:03:12PM -0500, David Kennedy wrote: > Hi, I was able to get Debian installed and everything I need working but I > have a few questions: > > 1) How do you change the colours of xterm? Right now, when I click on it I > get a black on white window. I can type xterm -bg black -fg white to get a > new xterm window with the colours I want. >
Changing the menu to insert the -bg and -fg switches is window manager specific. I use fvwm2, and created a ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook with this in it: ======================================== # Same as main-menu.hook, but entries are added at the # very beginning of the menu. # for example: + "rxvt" Exec rxvt -ls -sl 256 -bg linen -geometry 80x56 + "rxvt (big)" Exec rxvt -ls -sl 256 -fn 10x20 -bg linen -geometry 80x56 + "rxvt (black)" Exec rxvt -ls -sl 256 -bg black -fg white -geometry 80x56 + "rxvt (black, big)" Exec rxvt -ls -sl 256 -fn 10x20 -bg black -fg white -geometry 80x56 + "Emacs" Exec emacs -g 80x70 + "Emacs (I18N)" Exec emacs -g 80x70 -fn fontset-standard # and the following generates a horizontal line: + "" Nop ======================================== > 2) What is dwww? I noticed in the menu directory where all the names of > entries into the debian menu are that lots of choices aren't being displayed > because they require 'dwww'. > > 3) How do I set a screensaver to activate? The menu lists many but I don't > know how to set them. Also, I downloaded the opengl(?) screensavers and I > can run them but they aren't listed under the screensaver section. > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9812/msg01163.html miket