On Fre, November 18, 2005 11:20, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am 2005-11-12 08:58:23, schrieb John L Fjellstad: >>> I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my >>> ~/.Xresources file: >>> XTerm*Background: black >>> XTerm*Foreground: white >>> >>> But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to >>> XTerm manual, this should work. Oh, and I tried changing the names >>> (Background to background etc. No effect). > >> Weird, becasue I have a directory called ~/.Xresources and there I >> have the file > > Perhaps you have something like > export XAPPLRESDIR=~/.Xresources > in your initialization script.
The background and foreground properties should be lowercase I think. You could also try something like this, which works for all applications that use the VT100-widget: *.VT100.background: white *.VT100.foreground: black -- Regards, Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]