[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Cool! Thanks alot! > Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file? > man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :( > > Timothy > > > Three solutions: > > 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all. > > 2) Modify Xresources to make the xterm that appears with "xterm" be > > what you want; putting the following into ~/.Xresources (and either > > restarting X or running "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources") will do that: > > > > xterm*background: black > > xterm*foreground: white > > xterm*cursorColor: green > > > > (You can put these lines into /etc/X11/Xresources to affect every > > account on your machine) > >
The real documentation? It's in the Xlib documentation published by the X consortium. Trust me, you don't want that. The basic format of the file is as in the lines above - my ~/.Xresources file looks like this: *scrollBar: true ! make everything have a scrollbar xterm.vt100*translations: #override \ <Key>BackSpace: string(\177) \n\ <Key>Delete: string(0x1b) string("[3~") \n xterm*background: bisque3 xterm*foreground: black netscape*blinkingEnabled: False DctrlIcon*geometry: +1092+670 pmon*geometry: +1052+670 Blank lines are ignored - exclamation points begin comments. A particular application obeys resources if they begin with "*" or with the application's executable name or with the application's class name (an application's Class name can be found with 'xlsclients -l'). What each resource does is application specific. The xterm man page has several good examples of xresource lines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]