Re: Problem with yellow text in man pages - Solved

From: Bob Goodwin (bobgoodwin_at_att.net)
Date: 11/06/04

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    Lorenzo Zappi wrote:
    Bob Goodwin wrote:

    I'm using xfce 4.0.5-1 and Fedora Core 2 [kernel 2.6.8-1.521].

    I prefer to run xterm using black text on a white background which works well for me except
    when I call a "man page." Many words are accented in yellow which is unreadable against a
    white background. I usually avoid the problem by using "info" instead of "man." But it seems
    to me there ought to be a better way. How can I force the man pages to use only black text?

    I dealt with the color change by entering in the "command" window under "Terminal" properties
    "xfterm4 -bg white  -fg black." That works as expected for everything except man pages.

    Any help appreciated ...

    Thanks.

    Bob Goodwin, Zuni, Virginia

    Bob,

    edit your ~/.Xresourses and try to change colors for colorUL (maybe you need to change colorBL,colorDB as well)
       ...
       XTerm*colorUL: black
       ...
    and then xrdb -merge .Xresources

    Lorenzo

    Thanks to Lorenzo and Jasper my problem is corrected.

    I added the following lines to .Xresources:

    xterm*colorULMode: on
    xterm*colorBDMode: on
    xterm*colorUL: magenta
    xterm*colorBD: blue

     and that creates a display that's easily read.

    Thanks for the immediate responses.

    BobG


     
    


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