Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-18 10:20:38, schrieb Thomas Dickey: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Weird, becasue I have a directory called ~/.Xresources and there I > > have the file > > Perhaps you have something like > export XAPPLRESDIR=~/.Xresources > in your initialization script. Righ

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-17 09:46:04, schrieb John L Fjellstad: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Weird, becasue I have a directory called ~/.Xresources and there I > > have the file > > Are you using Sid with Xorg? I don't think I had problems My /home is mounted via NFS and it works on P

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-18 Thread Allan Jensen
On Fre, November 18, 2005 11:20, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am 2005-11-12 08:58:23, schrieb John L Fjellstad: >>> I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my >>> ~/.Xresources file: >>> XTerm*Background: black >>> XTerm*Foreground: whit

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2005-11-12 08:58:23, schrieb John L Fjellstad: >> I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my >> ~/.Xresources file: >> XTerm*Background: black >> XTerm*Foreground: white >> >> But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Weird, becasue I have a directory called ~/.Xresources and there I > have the file Are you using Sid with Xorg? I don't think I had problems until I upgraded to Sid. Don't really know what the difference, if any, between Xorg and whatever version o

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-12 08:58:23, schrieb John L Fjellstad: > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > ~/.Xresources file: > XTerm*Background: black > XTerm*Foreground: white > > But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to > XTerm manual, this should work.

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-15 Thread Jim Ottaway
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than >> XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, and it might over-ride XTerm >> resour

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than > XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, and it might over-ride XTerm > resources. I have this in my ~/.Xresources: VT100 is the c

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Well, I got it working. Turend out I named the resources wrong. Should be xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white Found that out by doing a xrdb -query, which gave me the real name. Thanks for all the help. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipso

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than > XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, and it might over-ride XTerm > resources. I have this in my ~/.Xresources: XTerm-color wo

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-14 Thread Jim Ottaway
> John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> u forgot, didn't know (?) to do: >> xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources >> ( it's buried in the docs too ) > Nope, did that. Still doesn't see any change. Interesting enough, if > I do xrdb ~/.Xresources, I do

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > u forgot, didn't know (?) to do: > xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources > ( it's buried in the docs too ) Nope, did that. Still doesn't see any change. Interesting enough, if I do xrdb ~/.Xresources, I do get a color change but then everything else cha

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try putting them into ~/.Xdefaults > > I had to logout and back in for it to apply, but after that it was there > everytime :) Tried, didn't work. I'm running Sid, though with Xorg. Don't know if that makes a difference. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Andreas Rippl wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > > ~/.Xresources file: > > XTerm*Background: black > > XTerm*Foreground: white > > > > But it has no effect. Anyone

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > ~/.Xresources file: > XTerm*Background: black > XTerm*Foreground: white > > But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to > XTerm manual, th

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-12 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > > ~/.Xresources file: > > XTerm*Background: black > > XTerm*Foreground: white > > > > But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-12 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to XTerm manual, this should work. Oh, and I tried changing the names (Background to background e

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-12 Thread Grant
John L Fjellstad wrote: I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to XTerm manual, this should work. Oh, and I tried changing the names (

changin XTerm colors

2005-11-12 Thread John L Fjellstad
I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to XTerm manual, this should work. Oh, and I tried changing the names (Background to background et