Re: changin XTerm colors

From: Jim Ottaway (j.ottaway_at_lse.ac.uk)
Date: 11/15/05

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Date:  Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:04:42 +0000

    >>>>> Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> writes:

    > Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
    >> Is it possible that you need to change the VT100 resources rather than
    >> XTerm ones? It looks like VT100 is used for colours in
    >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, and it might over-ride XTerm
    >> resources. I have this in my ~/.Xresources:

    > VT100 is the class name for the vt100 widget which is under the XTerm
    > window.

    >> *VT100*background: xtermbg

    > The asterisks tell Xt to apply that to anything with an application name
    > "background" anywhere under anything with a class name of VT100. One
    > could have an application with multiple levels containing the same class
    > name. If you know the actual hierarchy, a "." works better since it is
    > more specific, and overrides a wildcard in the same position which might
    > be set in the system's app-defaults file (or by xrdb). Most use of xrdb
    > is misguided (but it does reduce the amount of work the desktop people
    > do ;-)

    I see, thank you for the information here and in your other
    post. Those settings are ancient in my .Xresources file, the whole
    file is covered in dust, in fact. Looks like I should give it a
    spring clean.

    Regards, 

    -- 
Jim Ottaway
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