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kibartas

Member

Registered: 2019-01-29

Posts: 29

Problem with Xresources and xterm

I'd like to customize my terminal on my i3 window manager. I know that .Xresources is used for doing that, but xrdb .Xresources only does anything if I start another xterm instance from the current terminal.

That is, if I exit the current terminal and ALT+ENTER into it again, it wont be changed by xrdb.

How is it possible to change that behaviour?

Thanks in advance

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Problem with Xresources and xterm

Err... are you at least loading the .Xresources file on system start?

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources#Usage