grey background on xterm [??]

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Sun May 27 18:51:52 UTC 2007


Quoting Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> (from Fri, 25 May 2007  
15:21:53 -0700):

> 	Guys,
>
> 	For months I get darker colors using terminal and ssh'ing into
> 	this server from others running Gnome and running mutt. I just
> 	discovered that running an xterm, the background is a deep off-white,
> 	a gray-something with black type.   I've played around with
> 	XTerm-color in the X11R6 app-defaults file, but still haven't figured
> 	out how to get a clean while background.  On most servers I run

xterm is independend of gnome, see  
http://www.leidinger.net/X/xresources.html for how to use the X  
resources (and some prebuild examples for xterm).

Bye,
Alexander.

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