xfterm4

[Jack Kern]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> Uwe Dippel wrote:
>
>> Can someone please update me on xfterm4 ?
>> Since the last update it comes white on black; before I had it black 
>> on white.
>> I already read some documentation, man xfterm4, but to no avail ...
>> ... except that it starts xterm.
>> Reading man xterm, the default values are black on white.
>> So is this a flaw of xterm ??
>
>
> as another has stated, xfterm4 is just a shell script that defaults to 
> xterm.  it will actually run arbitrary commands, just set the TERMCMD 
> variable in e.g. your ~/.bash_profile.
>
> so if i used xterm (i actually use eterm), i might like something like 
> this:
> export TERMCMD="xterm -rv -fa Monospace -fs 12 -ls -rightbar"
>
I merely did a "export TERMCMD=xterm" in .bash_profile and it changed 
from white on black to the configuration I had specified for XTerm* I 
had in ~/.Xresources.  Odd.