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RE: Changing colours of XTerm
- From: "Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:06:04 -0400
- Subject: RE: Changing colours of XTerm
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
mrdna@eircom.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every
> technique I could find on the web for changing from the
> default black-on-white colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X
> applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of
> the techniques worked.
>
> I tried, among other things, changing XResources and
> uncommenting the lines in XTerm-color that XTerm-color told
> me to uncomment if I wanted to change colours. Does anyone
> know for sure how to change colours IN CYGWIN, because the
> general UNIX techniques don't seem to be working?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Liam.
>
>
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configuration using .Xdefaults works fine for me.
If that doesn't work, you can always setup a script/shortcut and
explicitly set -fg and -bg
reid