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 know what the problem is? u forgot, didn't know (?) to do: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources ( it's buried in the docs too ) than xterm and now for fun .. - try changing the fonts - than colorize your prompts - or add /home/rippl# to the title bar - or gazillion billion other silly options > alias xterm='xterm -bg black -fg white' > has always worked fine. it'd better :-) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]