Seconded. You don't even need xrdb. You can configure quite a lot with xterm. This file sits in my home directory and configures menus, colors, fonts, and even keystroke/click behavior without having to load it with xrdb (because ~ is one of the places libXt looks for resource files): https://github.com/Anthropohedron/dotfiles/blob/master/XTerm
--Gregory On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 03:01:29PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi Dan. > > I'm enjoying your list. I'm not sure why you note that xterm cannot > config the colors, and maybe I misunderstand, but I've set xterm colors > via xrdb. In fact, I use xrdb to change the colors on both xterm and > rxvt to match the "Linux console color palette" (especially rxvt with > its horrid default color scheme): > > https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2020/02/coping-with-color-on-the-linux-console-and-xterm-and-friends/ > > For the record, I use Gnome Terminal almost exclusively. I use xterm > with an amateur radio logging program as xterm doesn't reserve various > key combinations for its own use as Gnome Terminal does that the program > uses. > > Horses for courses. > > - Nate > > -- > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > Web: https://www.n0nb.us > Projects: https://github.com/N0NB > GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 >
