Re: terminal preferences

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:48:59AM -0500, Werner, Roger NAVAIR wrote:
> Assuming you are in X, you could try starting a new one with a command
> such as:
> 
> xterm -bg black -fg wheat &
> 
> This would start a new xterm in which you could at least see what you
> were doing.  However, to use the GUIs for setting color preferences for
> the window manager, you might still be operating blind.  These are
> probably controlled by settings somewhere like apps-defaults files.  If
> nobody suggests anything better, you could try reinstalling X, but if
> you do, before you do it, set the default bootup mode in /etc/inittab
> back to id:3 (not 5), so you will at least have a text-mode session to
> work out of until you get X working again.  From there, X can be started
> with $startx and exited wity ctl-alt-backspace.
> 
> - just guessing (not an X, Gnu or KDE expert by any means)
> roger
> 
Actually it can be controlled in the .Xdefaults file in the home directory.
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