[Gllug] Console colours (Was: Font choice)

[Jim Bailey]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:56:11PM +0100, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> > Is there a way to change the colours of the text console?  e.g. How do you
> > invert the colours and have black on white.
> 
> Depending on the terminal application, you can usually specify it with
> command line options.  But you can also specify it in Xresources
> settings.  So you might specify 
> 
> XTerm*foreground: gray90
> XTerm*background: black
> 
> In ~/.Xresources or 
> 
> 
> *foreground: gray90
> *background: black
> 
> in /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (or wherever your distribution
> puts its Xresources info).  The first is a user-specific example, the
> latter machine-wide.
>
Many thanks Bruce, I had been wondering how to do this.

Peace Jim


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