Changing colours of XTerm

[<mrdna at eircom dot net>]

Thanks, 

It was a problem to do with line endings. I sent my .Xdefaults file to my remote UNIX account and opened it with vim. It looked OK. I opened it with vi and it had ^M appended to each line, so I removed each one and sent the file back to my PC where it worked without errors with Cygwin. 

I ran dos2unix on the file on my UNIX account but it seemed to make no difference. dos2unix does not seem to be in my Cygwin installation and I couldn't find it using the download utility, setup.exe. 

Also, should the -g geometry command work with Cygwin? I tried opening an xterm& with -g and something like 600x500 and it restarted my Win98 PC. 

Another thing: When I single click with left or right mouse button on an XTerm window Cygwin freezes and has to be Ctrl+Alt+Delled. I can click and drag text to copy it and all, but when I single click the window to remove the highlighting Cygwin will freeze. This happens consistently. 

- Liam. 

- Original Message - 
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:55:18 +0200 (MEST)
From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
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Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in Xterm etc.
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 mrdna@eircom.net wrote:

> 
> 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:
> 
> " 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

Try converting the file to unix line endings 
dos2unix ~/.Xdefaults

bye
	ago


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