Problem with yellow text in man pages -

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I'm using xfce 4.0.5-1 and Fedora Core 2 [kernel 2.6.8-1.521].
> 
> I prefer to run xterm using black text on a white background which works 
> well for me except
> when I call a "man page." Many words are accented in yellow which is 
> unreadable against a
> white background. I usually avoid the problem by using "info" instead of 
> "man." But it seems
> to me there ought to be a better way. How can I force the man pages to 
> use only black text?
> 
> I dealt with the color change by entering in the "command" window under 
> "Terminal" properties
> "xfterm4 -bg white  -fg black." That works as expected for everything 
> except man pages.
> 
> Any help appreciated ...
> 

xfterm4 by default simply runs xterm. Apparently your disstribution has 
set it up to use yellow for bold text. You can change that by editing or 
creating an ~/.Xdefaults file and put in these lines:

*XTerm*colorULMode: on
*XTerm*colorBDMode: on
*XTerm*colorUL: magenta
*XTerm*colorBD: blue

Or something similar.

	Jasper