Customizing xterm in X11

Hi All,
I've been reading about numerous ways of customizing xterm in X11. Is .Xresources the way to go? I have X11 setup to use the default .xinitrc file and have coloured my xterms in .Xresources. Upon startup, I get one xterm window popping up, with the expected colours etc. Then, I do a Cmd-N to get a new window (or type xterm in the old window) but the new windows do not bear the properties as specified in .Xresources. How do I fix this?
Thanks,
KL
iBook G3 500

KL,
Does Gary's suggestion resolve your problem?
Assuming that you've made your changes to the ~/.Xresources, rather than
the /etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources. Though that shouldn't make a difference.
Here's the one that I use which works fine for me. Starting a new xterm from the X11 Application menu, starts up a xterm, with all of the setting that I have specified. So you might try the .Xresources file below, to see if it works, and then compare it to yours to see how it differs.
cat ~/.Xresources
.xterm*scrollBar:true
.xterm*rightScrollBar:true
.xterm*saveLines:500
.xterm*loginShell:true
.xterm*geometry:100x40
# Color that I set using the Digital Color Meter
# This sets the shade to the same shade of green and black as
# the Terminal.app. Setting it here mean that it doesn't change
# when the system is updated.
.xterm*background: rgb:00/00/00
.xterm*foreground: rgb:11/ff/0b
.xterm*borderColor:tan
# see the xterm(1) manpage. this is needed if ${TERM} is
# set to vt220.
.xterm*decTerminalID:220
# Font related stuff
.xterm*utf8:1
.xterm*locale:no
to get a login shell, that should pick up your shell initialization file(s), try using the loginShell resource, by default it's disabled.
from xterm(1):
loginShell (class LoginShell)
Specifies whether or not the shell to be run in the window
should be started as a login shell. The default is ``false.''

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kri=\E[1;2A, mc0=\E[i, mc4=\E[4i, mc5=\E[5i, meml=\El,
memu=\Em, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, ri=\EM,
rin=\E[%p1%dT, rmacs=\E(B, rmam=\E[?7l, rmcup=\E[?1049l,
rmir=\E[4l, rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m,
rs1=\Ec, rs2=\E[!p\E[?3;4l\E[4l\E>, sc=\E7,
setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm,
setb=\E[4%?%p1%{1}%=%t4%e%p1%{3}%=%t6%e%p1%{4}%=%t1%e%p1%{6}%=%t3%e%p1%d%;m,
setf=\E[3%?%p1%{1}%=%t4%e%p1%{3}%=%t6%e%p1%{4}%=%t1%e%p1%{6}%=%t3%e%p1%d%;m,
sgr=%?%p9%t\E(0%e\E(B%;\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p7%t;8%;m,
sgr0=\E(B\E[m, smacs=\E(0, smam=\E[?7h, smcup=\E[?1049h,
smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
tbc=\E[3g, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?1;2c, u9=\E[c,
vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,
I dont know, what should I find in infocmp.
Last edited by kubco2 (2013-11-18 17:36:08)

Gnome screensaver keeps starting in openbox

I don't know what config is starting it, but it is driving me crazy (It tries to run when I'm playing games). I couldn't find it in ~/.config/openbox/* or in any of the ~./X* files. I use kdm for logging on (my gf would panic if she ever saw a terminal login)
pstree:
init─┬─6*[agetty]
├─console-kit-dae───63*[{console-kit-dae}]
├─crond
├─cupsd
├─3*[dbus-daemon]
├─2*[dbus-launch]
├─dcopserver
├─ddclient
├─gconfd-2
├─gnome-screensav
├─gnome-settings-───{gnome-settings-}
├─gvfs-fuse-daemo───3*[{gvfs-fuse-daemo}]
├─gvfsd
├─hald───hald-runner─┬─hald-addon-acpi
│ ├─hald-addon-inpu
│ └─2*[hald-addon-stor]
├─kded
├─kded4
├─kdeinit───klauncher
├─kdeinit4─┬─kio_file
│ └─klauncher
├─kdm─┬─X
│ └─kdm───openbox─┬─firefox───5*[{firefox}]
│ ├─xterm───dash
│ └─xterm───pstree.x11
├─mpd───3*[{mpd}]
├─ntpd
├─portmap
├─privoxy
├─rpc.mountd
├─rpc.statd
├─sshd
├─start_kdeinit
├─syslog-ng
└─udevd

As I understand it, if you want to use gnome-screensaver, you need to load gnome-settings-daemon and perhaps gnome-settings-daemon-helper
I don't have an Arch box around to test, but I believe this will go ahead and load Nautilus on you as well, which will draw the desktop and handle your background, fonts, gtk, etc. I've read you're able to turn this behaviour off with gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
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