RE: Changing colours of XTerm

["Baksik, Frederick (NM75)" <frederick dot baksik at honeywell dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reid Thompson [mailto:Reid.Thompson@ateb.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:06 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Changing colours of XTerm
> 
> mrdna@eircom.net wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried 
> every technique 
> > I could find on the web for changing from the default 
> black-on-white 
> > colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X
> > applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of the 
> > techniques worked.
> > 
> > I tried, among other things, changing XResources and 
> uncommenting the 
> > lines in XTerm-color that XTerm-color told me to uncomment 
> if I wanted 
> > to change colours. Does anyone know for sure how to change 
> colours IN 
> > CYGWIN, because the general UNIX techniques don't seem to 
> be working?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Liam.
> > 
> > 
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> configuration using .Xdefaults works fine for me.
> 
> If that doesn't work, you can always setup a script/shortcut 
> and explicitly set -fg and -bg
> 
> reid
> 

Hi, Here are the settings I've used in .Xdefaults:
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: orchid3
XTerm*internalBorder: 10

!This is for fixing the backspace not to do ^H but ^?
XTerm.*.backarrowKey: false

!This is for double clicking
XTerm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48

XTerm*cursorBlink: true
XTerm*cursorColor: green4
XTerm*pointerColor: green4

!The default blue is too dark on my monitor
XTerm*color4: blue1