Rich, For dtterm, you might be better to use:
Dtterm*background:black in your .Xdefaults, that way it will only apply the black bg to dtterm... Darren. Rich Teer wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Brian Nitz wrote: > >> Rich, > > Hi Brian, > >> If you've downloaded the amd64 version, run isainfo -v to make sure you're >> booted in 64 bit mode. Some of us are running in 32 bit mode because our wifi >> hardware requires nasty NDIS drivers which aren't 64 bit ready :-/ > > Yep got that. I figured out the problem the other day: in my .Xdefaults > I have a line that says "*background: black" so that I can get a black > background in my dtterms. This also affects VirtualBox (and was the cause > of my problems), but the workaround is (thankfully) simple: I start VirtualBox > with "-bg white" and all is well! > > It'd be nice to be able to figure out what incantation needs to go into my > .Xdefaults to make this automatic, but it's not super high priority. I plan > to play with XP Pro inside VirtualBox this weekend. Hopefully it'll be good > enough to replace my current Windoze needs, where I'm using Sun PCi II Pro. > ~700MHz Athalon with 512MB(?) of RAM isn't really a fair fight againsta 2.6 > GHz > Opeteron with 2 GB of RAM though! :-) >
