On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> That is strange:
>
> <shelob:/tmp,1198> echo "Dtterm*background: green" | xrdb -merge
> <shelob:/tmp,1199> xrdb -query | grep -i dtterm
> *DtTerm*shadowThickness: 1
> Dtterm*background: green
> <shelob:/tmp,1200> dtterm
> [dtterm with green background pops up. I close it.]
> <shelob:/tmp,1201> echo "Dtterm*background: pink" | xrdb -merge
> <shelob:/tmp,1202> xrdb -query | grep -i dtterm
> *DtTerm*shadowThickness: 1
> Dtterm*background: pink
> <shelob:/tmp,1203> dtterm
> [dtterm with pink background pops up. I hastily close it. :-)]
>
>
> So the proverbial answer is "works for me".
That works for me too, except the background of the scroll bar
changes colour (which I don't want).
> What does "xrdb -query |grep -i background" say?
rich at duo12339# xrdb -query |grep -i background
*XmText*background: black
*XmTextField*background: black
*background: black
It's the last line that's the killer. Without it, VirtualBox display
just fine, but my dtterms have a white background. With it, dtterm
is fine but VirtualBox is unusable because black text on a black background
doesn't work so well... :-)
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