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hugepopeye

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Registered: 2011-01-22

Posts: 15

background color of terminal.

Just installed the archbang 2011.10 a couple of days ago. The default background color of the terminal is black.
I can not remember what I did to change the background to white. I am wondering how I can recover it back to the default black.

Thanks and look forward to your kind response.

Best.

Kruppt

Moderator

From: Blue Ridge Mountains, NC

Registered: 2010-12-20

Posts: 299

Re: background color of terminal.

Just installed the archbang 2011.10 a couple of days ago. The default background color of the terminal is black.
I can not remember what I did to change the background to white. I am wondering how I can recover it back to the default black.

Thanks and look forward to your kind response.

Best.

Hold Ctrl-Right Click In Terminal Window.
Select Preferences
Style Tab
You can't miss it from there

vrkalak

Member

From: Santa Fe, NM, USA

Registered: 2010-10-07

Posts: 50

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Re: background color of terminal.

Thank you, for this "tips and tricks" fix ... I was wondering how to do this, with the LXTerminal.

I know that you could easily accomplish transparency' in xfce-term ... good to know that it is possible with LXTerm and Openbox.

hugepopeye

Member

Registered: 2011-01-22

Posts: 15

Re: background color of terminal.

I tried this option, but there is no such a 'preference' on the list. Any suggestion? Thanks.

Mr Green

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Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 3,752

Re: background color of terminal.

Go into preferences you will see background then click on that [the coloured box to the right of it]

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ArchVortex

Retired AB Overlord

From: Jakarta, Indonesia

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 1,449

Re: background color of terminal.

Did you read the ArchBang Wiki article http://wiki.archbang.org/index.php?titl … e_Terminal yet? Edit the ~/.Xdefaults hidden in your home folder. You should see:

! Xft settings ---------------------------------------------------------------

Xft.dpi:        96
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!
!    U R X V T - Settings
!
URxvt*geometry:                    80x25
URxvt*foreground:                grey80
URxvt*borderLess:                false
URxvt*depth:                    32
URxvt*background:                rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
URxvt*scrollBar_right:            true
URxvt*font:                        xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-10
URxvt*cursorBlink: true
URxvt*cursorUnderline: true

!colors
!black
URxvt*color0:                    #676767
URxvt*color8:                    #757575
!red
URxvt*color1:                    #EA6868
URxvt*color9:                    #FF7272
!green
URxvt*color2:                    #ABCB8D
URxvt*color10:                    #AFD78A
!yellow
URxvt*color3:                    #E8AE5B
URxvt*color11:                    #FFA75D
!blue
URxvt*color4:                    #71C5F4
URxvt*color12:                    #67CDE9
!magenta
URxvt*color5:                    #E2BAF1
URxvt*color13:                    #ECAEE9
!cyan
URxvt*color6:                    #21F1EA
URxvt*color14:                    #36FFFC
!white
URxvt*color7:                    #F1F1F1
URxvt*color15:                    #FFFFFF

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Mr Green

Iso Developer

Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 3,752

Re: background color of terminal.

I am getting confused is 2011.10 is urxvt [I am running lxterminal on my install] my bad!

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ArchVortex

Retired AB Overlord

From: Jakarta, Indonesia

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 1,449

Re: background color of terminal.

@Mr Green,

I run lxterminal too! It's my terminal of choice. I left the ~/Xdefaults in my home folder for such an occasion as this but have already removed urxvt.

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pablokal

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From: Nijmegen, Holland

Registered: 2010-10-12

Posts: 2,626

Website

Re: background color of terminal.

Visually I like lxterminal the most, but I use the rather ugly duckling roxterm, also more bloated than lxterminal, but with nice features http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/index.ph … de&lang=en

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