Re: Crash when single-click Xterm window

2005-07-07 Thread mrdna
Originally posted by me and by Alexander.Gottwald: Another thing: When I single click with left or right mouse button on an XTerm window Cygwin freezes and has to be Ctrl+Alt+Delled. I can click and drag text to copy it and all, but when I single click the window to remove the

Changing colours of XTerm

2005-07-03 Thread mrdna
Thanks, It was a problem to do with line endings. I sent my .Xdefaults file to my remote UNIX account and opened it with vim. It looked OK. I opened it with vi and it had ^M appended to each line, so I removed each one and sent the file back to my PC where it worked without errors with

Re: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in Xterm etc.

2005-06-29 Thread mrdna
Thanks. That works in .Xdefaults. I must have been doing something wrong. Even though the colours are right I get strange messages when I open a new xterm (typing xterm or xterm) though. Like this: is not defineding: Color name black to type Booleanonvert string false to type Intot convert

Changing colours of XTerm

2005-06-24 Thread mrdna
Hello, I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every technique I could find on the web for changing from the default black-on-white colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of the techniques worked. I tried, among other