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dhdarka

Member

Registered: 2009-12-08

Posts: 5

Help changing terminal background!

I had xterm. But the background is white with black text. So it hurtting my eye. So, I uninstall xterm and install rxvt-unicode or urxvt. In hope to fix this. But it did not. Now I'm not sure on how to change the background to black and text to white. All I want. Try looking at Color Bash Prompt. But did not help or was not able to fixgure it out. Newlly install. Running i686 Fluxbox.

Last edited by dhdarka (2011-04-16 19:57:40)

Mazh

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Registered: 2011-04-13

Posts: 48

Re: Help changing terminal background!

In your bash did you check in Settting->configure profiles->edit your profile->apparence tab(from there you can already set few fixed colors, and you can still personalize by editing it from the right boutton). If this is the only thing you wanna change (background and white text, I guess I shown you the right way to do it)

Last edited by Mazh (2011-04-16 20:04:35)

dhdarka

Member

Registered: 2009-12-08

Posts: 5

Re: Help changing terminal background!

The problem to this is. I'm not using GNOME or KDE. So right clicking will not help.

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: Help changing terminal background!

@dhdarka: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults

@Mazh: bash != terminal

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thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Help changing terminal background!

Colors for xterm and urxvt are usually set from the user's ~/.Xdefaults file.  Help is available in the wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xd … nal_colors

There are plenty of links to people's .Xdefaults files in the forums' screenshot threads.

You can also search the internet for "xterm colors" and "urxvt colors".

dhdarka

Member

Registered: 2009-12-08

Posts: 5

Re: Help changing terminal background!

Thank you fsckd and thisoldman for your help! It fix now.

Last edited by dhdarka (2011-04-16 21:06:17)

omega1226

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Registered: 2011-04-13

Posts: 9

Re: Help changing terminal background!

Should this be changed to [SOLVED]?

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