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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
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