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Re: how to change the background of xterm?
- From: "Keith D. Tyler" <keith at keithtyler dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:51:15 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: how to change the background of xterm?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Mingdong Huang was recently quoted as saying...
>
> The default background of xterm is white. I tried to change it to black by
> editing /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color file, but did not work.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Ming
>
>
Add this to your .xdefaults file:
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: white
Kdt