Re: using a light theme with xterm (that has black background)

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:01:13AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:

> Like most of the programs that came with the original X Window
> System, xterm relies on "X resources" for configuration.  On most
> modern Linux systems, you can create a file in your home directory
> called .Xresources, and then define the resources you want for the
> seemingly infinite configurable properties that xterm has.  You
> might need to call it .Xdefaults on your system; I usually just make
> a symlink from one to the other just to be safe.  For example, I
> have the following

I think .Xresources and .Xdefaults are actually quite different,
even though what you do usually works.

.Xresources is for the X server: it loads the contents when your
session starts, and then each app can query it with the X protocol
(via the Xlib API). OTOH, .Xdefaults is read inividually by each app.

So they have to be on different machines in the case of using X remotely:
.Xresources on the server, .Xdefaults on the client.

-- 
Ian