[SOLVED] rxvt-unicode font color too dark

Question

I just updated rxvt-unicode-patched and now my font is quite dark. It was bright previously but now appears as:
Here is my .bashrc:
Xcursor.theme: Obsidian
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*geometry: 120x70
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*jumpScroll: true
URxvt*skipScroll: true
URxvt*visualBell: false
URxvt*buffered: true
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/6666
URxvt*foreground: rgba:aaaa/aaaa/aaaa/7777
URxvt*transparent: false
URxvt*fading: 10
URxvt*fadeColor: grey
URxvt*shading: 75
URxvt*font: xft:Terminus-12
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Terminus-12-bold
URxvt*urlLauncher: google-chrome
URxvt.matcher.button: 2
URxvt.perl-ext-common: matcher,clipboard
URxvt.perl-lib: /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/matcher
URxvt*intensityStyles: true
URxvt*internalBorder: 0
URxvt*externalBorder: 1
URxvt*borderLess: false
URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode
urxvt.colorBD: #ffffff
urxvt.colorIT: #bbbbbb
urxvt.colorUL: #999999
urxvt.underlineColor: #999999
XTerm*Geometry: 100x60
XTerm*background: Black
XTerm*foreground: White
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*termName: xterm-256color
!*background: #121212
!black
!*color0: #353535
!*color8: #666666
!red
!*color1: #AE4747
!*color9: #EE6363
!green
!*color2: #556B2F
!*color10: #9ACD32
!brown/yellow
!*color3: #DAA520
!*color11: #FFC125
!blue
!*color4: #6F99B4
!*color12: #7C96B0
!magenta
!*color5: #8B7B8B
!*color13: #D8BFD8
!cyan
!*color6: #A7A15E
!*color14: #F0E68C
!white
!*color7: #DDDDDD
!*color15: #FFFFFF
!*foreground: #DDDDDD
*background: #151515
*foreground: #ffffff
!black
*color0: #111111
*color8: #505050
!red
*color1: #b04020
*color9: #dd4010
!green
*color2: #afd700
*color10: #daff30
!yellow
*color3: #f7cf0a
!*color11: #fce70d
*color11: #ff9600
!blue
*color4: #3060aa
*color12: #6099dd
!magenta
*color5: #d6156c
*color13: #fe4365
!cyan
*color6: #a0c2de
*color14: #c9dee8
!white
*color7: #cacaca
*color15: #b0b0b0
(changing the last two lines to FFFFFF makes no difference)
BLACK="\e[0;30m"
BLUE="\e[0;34m"
GREEN="\e[0;32m"
CYAN="\e[0;36m"
RED="\e[0;31m"
PURPLE="\e[0;35m"
BROWN="\e[0;33m"
LIGHTGRAY="\e[0;38m"
DARKGRAY="\e[1;30m"
LIGHTBLUE="\e[1;34m"
LIGHTGREEN="\e[1;32m"
LIGHTCYAN="\e[1;36m"
LIGHTRED="\e[1;31m"
LIGHTPURPLE="\e[1;35m"
YELLOW="\e[1;33m"
WHITE="\e[1;37m"
NC="\e[0m" # No Color
PS1="\[$BLUE\]ââ\[$PURPLE\][ \[$YELLOW\]\$(date +%D) $(date +%r) \[$PURPLE\]][ \[$LIGHTGREEN\]\w \[$PURPLE\]]\n\[$BLUE\]ââ\[$YELLOW\]> \[$LIGHTGRAY\]"
^^ When on the PS1 line there I change the end from LIGHTGRAY to WHITE, only the first couple lines appear white sometimes, others it appears as it should:
Appreciate any help, thanks
Last edited by colbert (2011-07-05 03:04:36)

Answer 1

URxvt*foreground: rgba:aaaa/aaaa/aaaa/7777
I think this is your font color. Have you tried changing it?
XTerm*foreground: White
This one is for xterm so no wonder it doesn't do anything in urxvt.
Edit: Setting
urxvt.foreground: #aaaaaa
does produce dark font, '#ffffff' gets me bright white, as expected.
Last edited by karol (2011-07-04 23:32:06)