Solved: Change Default Xterm Colors

[FastTurtle]

Using Fluxbox and happy but trying to get xterm with black background/white foreground instead of the white background/black foreground to make it easier to read.

Have tried .xdefaults in my home folder but no change - am willing to edit the fluxbox menu to ensure xterm uses the desired colors or change to a terminal using the console colors (much preferred).

The only thing Google came up with is from 2020 and older so almost useless due to changes in gentoo.
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[Hu]

My ~/.Xresources hasn't been changed in many years, and still works fine. I don't think a result being from 2020 necessarily means the result is invalid. I note that you tried ~/.xdefaults, which is not a name I have seen used before. The name I use is traditional, I think, but even so, my ~/.xinitrc is responsible for loading it: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources. Is your problem that the resources are not loaded, or that once loaded, they have no effect?

[FastTurtle]

Hu:

Thanks for the feedback. Been looking all over the net and of course the forums and the information seems to be wrong. The ~.Xdefaults was actually the 2020 post in the forums but from another distro forum as a possibility.

I will definately give ~.Xresources a shot to see if it'll work with the xinitrc comment you've provided. The way I've been using the xinitrc is to switch between fluxbox, enlightenment or in the main build kde without having to drop to a gui log-in manager such as sddm. It's a bit of a cludge at times but works well enough I haven't seen a reason to change as sddm does not allow root log-ins for some reason and I need the cli often enough as yet due to installing/tweaking settings.

What I'm assuming is that I'd add the line

[Hu]

[Anon-E-moose]

From my old .Xdefaults file

[FastTurtle]

Hu:

I normally use su in a terminal - much faster though it does depend on the terminal if it works. EG Terminology for some reason would fail the passwd authentication for some reason and not sure why but Don't Care as xterm does work. Just wrong colors.

Anon-E-moose:
that goes into the ~.Xdefaults in the home folder?

Now all I need to do is find the XTerm-Color file again and configure that to be the default. Then it's a single file to edit for global xterm settings.
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AMD Epyc 7282 CPU
192GB of ECC memory

[Anon-E-moose]