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Try 'xterm -rv'.  This will swap the foreground and background colors.

scoot

Two questions:

I have been trying to change my xterm to be white on black rather than black on white.
Is there any way of doing this??(Like using secure keyboard in Main options but with all the xterms)
I cannot find any reference to this in any of the docs)

What seems to be the most comfortable resolution in XFree, people have found to work with?
I am using 1024*??? (can't remember exactly) with a S3 card and a 15"ni. monitor but the screen does
not seem to fit well on the monitor, even fiddling with vgaset does not give me a properly adjusted
screen (2 black regions, about an inch wide, on either side).
When I drop down to 800*600 most of the applications seem to be too large for the screen.

Please reply here

Suad Musovich

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 : Two questions:
 :
 : I have been trying to change my xterm to be white on black rather
 : than black on white.
 : Is there any way of doing this??(Like using secure keyboard in Main
 : options but with all the xterms)
 : I cannot find any reference to this in any of the docs)
 :
Ever tried man xterm ??

from the man page:
-bg color ...color to use for the background...default white.
-fg color ...color to use for displaying text...default black.

just inverse this ;-)

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That's the quick and dirty way (useful if the command is in .xinitrc or
the like.).

A better system-wide change would be to edit .Xresources and make the
changes to the entire class of xterms.

Also, read the xterm man pages and find the colors you have supported
and then use something like 'xterm -fg [color] -bg [color] .... '.

Dan

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>scoot

: Two questions:

: I have been trying to change my xterm to be white on black rather than black on white.
: Is there any way of doing this??(Like using secure keyboard in Main options but with all the xterms)
: I cannot find any reference to this in any of the docs)

man xterm ? :-)

xterm -rv will start xterm in 'inverse video'.
So if you put that in menu from where you invoke xterm, you'll have it
always...

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