Rich Teer wrote: > 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... :-) >
I could never get dtterm colors to work correctly (eg completely settable) w/o screwing up non-Motif apps on my desktop. It may be possible, but instead I abandoned CDE years ago :-). - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
