Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I am fiddling with /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, thinking that this is where
/etc/DIR_COLORS, 34/44=blue are being defined assuming an xterm window?
My problem is that blue (0,0,255) is a bright dazzling blue color and
I need to tone it down a bit to something like "Navy" in X terminology.
How can this be done or is it hardwired?
Normally you should not bother modifying the files in app-defaults.
Instead, create the file ~/.Xresources and put your customizations there.
For xterms, I have these defaults in my ~/.Xresources file (a line
starting with '!' is commented out).
XTerm*foreground: Black
XTerm*background: Gray90
! XTerm*cursorColor: <color>
! XTerm*pointerColor: <color>
XTerm*Font:
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-i
so8859-1
XTerm*vt100*geometry: 80x35
XTerm*scrollBar: True
XTerm*Scrollbar*width: 17
XTerm*Scrollbar*background: LightSteelBlue
XTerm*saveLines: 800
XTerm*pointerColor: Red
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
There used to be a program to show standard colors and color names, but
I don't see anything on my system that looks familiar. You should be
able to specify colors like
XTerm*background: #RRGGBB
