RE: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in Xterm etc.

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
> On Behalf Of > > mrdna@eircom.net
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:23 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in Xterm etc.
> >
> >
> > Thanks. That works in .Xdefaults. I must have been doing something wrong.
> Even though the colours > are right I get strange messages when I open a new
> xterm (typing "xterm&" or "xterm") though. Like > this:

perhaps your .Xdefaults has cr/lf line-endings rather than lf-endings.

> > " is not defineding: Color name "black
> > " to type Booleanonvert string "false
> > " to type Intot convert string "10
> > " to type Booleanonvert string "true
> > " is not definedame "green4
> > " is not definedame "#00E000
> >
> > - Liam.
>
> I get these same errors if the .Xdefaults file happens to be in DOS ( LF/CR
> ) format and not Unix ( LF ) format.
>
> > - Original Message:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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