changing background color and text size in xterm
Hi everyone,
How do you change the background color and increase the text size of the xterm terminal window in X11? Specifically, I want to change the background to black and the text color to white. Increasing the font size would be nice too. I have a gut feeling that it involves changing some setting in some hidden file somewhere, but I don't have enough UNIX/X11 knowledge to make this happen.
Thanks in advance...
How do you change the background color and increase the text size of the xterm terminal window in X11? Specifically, I want to change the background to black and the text color to white. Increasing the font size would be nice too. I have a gut feeling that it involves changing some setting in some hidden file somewhere, but I don't have enough UNIX/X11 knowledge to make this happen.
Thanks in advance...
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this will give you a REALLY long list of all the options available for customizing xterm.
add what you want to your .xinitrc file.
for example, this is my .xinitrc :
source /sw/bin/init.sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm &
xterm -bg black -fg green -cr purple +cm +dc -geometry 80x20+100+50 &
that sets my xterm background (-bg) to black, my foreground color (-fg) to green, my cursor (-cr) to purple, size (geomentry) to 80 columns x 20 rows and screen position to 100x + 50y from the top left corner.
i forget what the other options do.
i haven't messed around with changing the font or font size yet
man xterm
this will give you a REALLY long list of all the options available for customizing xterm.
add what you want to your .xinitrc file.
for example, this is my .xinitrc :
source /sw/bin/init.sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm &
xterm -bg black -fg green -cr purple +cm +dc -geometry 80x20+100+50 &
that sets my xterm background (-bg) to black, my foreground color (-fg) to green, my cursor (-cr) to purple, size (geomentry) to 80 columns x 20 rows and screen position to 100x + 50y from the top left corner.
i forget what the other options do.
i haven't messed around with changing the font or font size yet
Or, make yourself root (sudo -s) and edit the xinitrc at /etc/X11/xinit (vi xinitrc, make edits, :wq!).
Unfortunately, I'm not sure why when I ask for a new window (OA-N), I get the old white background, black text. Any insight?