[gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

[gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

[Ian Lee]

I use to have a white text on black xterm, but since my last reinstall I 
have not been able to change the colours.

I have copied the /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color to 
/etc/X11/app-defaults and changed the options to

*VT100*foreground: gray90
*VT100*background: black

I have XFILESEARCHPATH = /etc/X11/%T/%N:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N

but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing??

thanks Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

[Mike Kazantsev]

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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 +0000
Ian Lee <ian@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing??

You can try putting

XTerm*background:       #001800
XTerm*foreground:       #A8A8A8

to ~/.Xresources
WFM

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Re: [gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

[Ian Lee]

Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 +0000
> Ian Lee <ian@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing??
> 
> You can try putting
> 
> XTerm*background:       #001800
> XTerm*foreground:       #A8A8A8
> 
> to ~/.Xresources
> WFM
> 


Thanks that worked.


I got finally got a system config rather than user config working
(not that i needed a system config)

/etc/X11/Xresources:
add

*customization: -color


/etc/env.d/10xpaths:
change
XFILESEARCHPATH=/etc/X11/%T/%N:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N
to
XFILESEARCHPATH=/etc/X11/%T/%N%C:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N%C

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color now works.