Changing xfterm color or running xterm

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:09, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > How do I change colors for just xfterm, or better yet replace it with xterm.  I can run xterm but I get the same colors as xfterm.  I want to customize the background and font colors just for xterm.  When running xterm under KDE I could set the background and fonts.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> xfterm just runs xterm. edit your .bash_profile and set the environment
> variable TERMCMD to whatever you want, e.g.:
> export TERMCMD='aterm +sb -fg grey -tr --shading 50'

I just tried this, and it failed to work.  I still get the same old
default x(f)term.

I added
export TERMCMD='aterm -fg white -trsb -cr red -pr white -tr -tint blue
-fade 25 -sl 700 -bg black'

to my .bashrc , and sourced it, and even logged out a& back into XFCE, and
still no change.

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