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I am trying to configure XTerm...
I like to have my text cursor as a tinted red block and the character the cursor is on preferably white and bold. Black background and white for general text.
In the Linux TTY, I can change the cursor colour and text within it quite easily with
echo -e "\e[?16;0;74c" at my .bash_profile. If you try that you can see how the cursor and text becomes curiously nice to see and read..
IN URxvt, there are two settings to control that in .Xresources:
URxvt.cursorColor:Firebrick
URxvt.cursorColor2:AntiqueWhiteTthat cursorColor2 controls text that is selected by the cursor.
In XTerm, there is only
XTerm.vt100.cursorColor:Firebrick. When I move the block cursor (that is now red) , the character it highlights is black, just as the background colour...
Does anyone would know how to change this setting, if there is one in XTerm?
I only have praises for XTerm and this is the last setting I would want to change in it for daily-use..
PS: I have re read the manual and it says XTerm accepts some other general X resources but nothing I could find useful for this hack-to-be... Maybe tinker with the way XTerm vt100 interprets escapes? But then I think I am going too far away from the point... I am close to the conclusion there is no such functionality in XTerm or how to forge it, Linux terminal was created some time after VT100, so it is should be more feature rich afterall... In the meantime, I set cursor blinking, so the text inside the cursor cell will keep reversing colours ( fg <--> bg ) ... Cheers!
PPS: Indeed, as XTerm *is* a vt100 emulator, and vt100 did not even had support for colours, which came I think with the vt100+ or vt200, anyways, so it is impossible to get that sort of config I want because that feature only really works in Linux TTY, and Linux terminal was made after XTerm, so there is no way to compare them...
Last edited by mountaineerbr (2019-03-18 04:41:31)
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