Changing xfterm color or running xterm

[Heiko Berges]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:09:00PM -0500, 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.

You can set several options in ~/.Xdefaults, eg.

xterm*background: black
xterm*foreground: lightgreen

man xterm /RESOURCES  will tell you more.


	Heiko