-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-05 16:45: | ... | My point was why default to something that isn't useful for the | standard terminal emulators like xterm, aterm, rxvt, etc. Are | there common terminal emulators that default to a black | background? | You always have the options of changing the colors in xterm/rxvt/aterm etc to your preferred colors, background color included.
The first one is changing the /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt file. The problem with changing it is that it usually gets overwritten with every xorg-x11 update. I prefer changing the .Xdefaults file in my user & root directories. That way any updates don't screw up my preferences. To see my current .Xdefaults, please look at the attached file - I have dropped Eterm & aterm. Rxvt is very resource efficient :) I use xterm as a fallback. ~ For further info & examples see: http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Howto_setup_Xdefaults http://dev.gentoo.org/~taviso/xdefaults.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Linux_Colors_in_Aterm/rxvt http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=68555 http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:TIP_Linux_Colors_in_Aterm/rxvt http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html#i_don_t_like_the_screen_colors__how_do_i_change_them http://www.fleiner.com/vim/xdefaults.linux http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#my_xdefaults For a nice xterm color palette, see http://mkaz.com/ref/xterm_colors.html ...and don't forget the man pages :) This should provide you with enough info on setting your preferred colors. Getting a black (or any other color) background is not that difficult, once you know how, and it's certainly helpful. You can set transparency, background image and more according to your taste and depending on what your preferred terminal supports. (For the moment I don't use Gentoo at all, due to a diskcrash :( Right now i'm stuck with Windoze xp (yuck). The only partitions working are the boot and the NTFS... disks are cheap but i'm between jobs right now :/) /Regards Tony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGFSBbJDzv6DN+QUkRAl2hAKCbpn1SGNFTPxkKYZgqeG3U6Q1XLwCeNicq pH2Pywp2Rxl09mptps6iNgY= =qmAE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Xft.dpi: 120 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: rgb Xcursor.theme: gentoo-silver xterm*loginShell: True xterm*vt100.translations: #override <KeyPress>Home: scroll-back(100,page) <KeyPress>End: scroll-forw(100,page) <KeyPress>Prior: scroll-back(1,page) <KeyPress>Next: scroll-forw(1,page) XTerm*highlightSelection: true XTerm*VT100.colorBDMode: on XTerm*VT100.colorBD: blue XTerm*VT100.colorULMode: on XTerm*VT100.colorUL: magenta XTerm*VT100.titeInhibit: true XTerm*VT100.colorMode: on XTerm*VT100.dynamicColors:on XTerm*VT100.underLine: off XTerm*internalBorder: 10 XTerm*externalBorder: 10 XTerm*eightBitInput: True XTerm*eightBitOutput: True XTerm*geometry: 132x30 XTerm*background: #000000 XTerm*foreground: #7f7f7f XTerm*color0: #000000 XTerm*color1: #9e1828 XTerm*color2: #aece92 XTerm*color3: #968a38 XTerm*color4: #414171 XTerm*color5: #963c59 XTerm*color6: #418179 XTerm*color7: #bebebe XTerm*color8: #666666 XTerm*color9: #cf6171 XTerm*color10: #c5f779 XTerm*color11: #fff796 XTerm*color12: #4186be XTerm*color13: #cf9ebe XTerm*color14: #71bebe XTerm*color15: #ffffff urxvt.depth: 32 urxvt.urlLauncher: firefox urxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode urxvt*keysym.Home: \\e[1~ urxvt*keysym.End: \\e[4~ urxvt*colorBD: #FFFFFF urxvt*colorIT: #FFFFFF urxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=7:antialias=true urxvt*boldFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:size=7:antialias=true urxvt*italicFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:italic:size=7:antialias=true:autohint=true urxvt*boldItalicFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:italic:size=7:antialias=true:autohint=true urxvt*secondaryScroll: true urxvt.cursorUnderline: 1 !urxvt.cursorBlink: 1 urxvt*inheritPixmap: True urxvt*scrollBar: False urxvt*scrollBar_right: False !urxvt*transpscroll: True urxvt*transparent: True urxvt*savelines: 32000 urxvt*visualBell: True urxvt*internalBorder: 10 urxvt*externalBorder: 10 urxvt*loginShell: True urxvt*fading: 52 urxvt*fadeColor: BlueViolet urxvt*shading: 64 urxvt*geometry: 132x30 urxvt*tinting: True urxvt*tintColor: Sienna3 urxvt*borderLess: True urxvt*utmpInhibit: True urxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False urxvt*scrollWithBuffer: True urxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True urxvt*cursorColor: #8a8a8a urxvt*background: #000000 urxvt*foreground: #FFFFFF ! #7f7f7f urxvt*color0: #000000 urxvt*color1: #9e1828 urxvt*color2: #aece92 urxvt*color3: #968a38 urxvt*color4: #414171 urxvt*color5: #963c59 urxvt*color6: #418179 urxvt*color7: #bebebe urxvt*color8: #666666 urxvt*color9: #cf6171 urxvt*color10: #c5f779 urxvt*color11: #fff796 urxvt*color12: #4186be urxvt*color13: #cf9ebe urxvt*color14: #71bebe urxvt*color15: #FFFFFF
