<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#cccccc" text="#000099"> Lorenzo Zappi wrote: <blockquote cite="mid418CC0FA.3050902@openwave.com" type="cite">Bob Goodwin wrote: <blockquote type="cite">I'm using xfce 4.0.5-1 and Fedora Core 2 [kernel 2.6.8-1.521]. I prefer to run xterm using black text on a white background which works well for me except when I call a "man page." Many words are accented in yellow which is unreadable against a white background. I usually avoid the problem by using "info" instead of "man." But it seems to me there ought to be a better way. How can I force the man pages to use only black text? I dealt with the color change by entering in the "command" window under "Terminal" properties "xfterm4 -bg white -fg black." That works as expected for everything except man pages. Any help appreciated ... Thanks. Bob Goodwin, Zuni, Virginia </blockquote> Bob, edit your ~/.Xresourses and try to change colors for colorUL (maybe you need to change colorBL,colorDB as well) ... XTerm*colorUL: black ... and then xrdb -merge .Xresources Lorenzo </blockquote> Thanks to Lorenzo and Jasper my problem is corrected. I added the following lines to .Xresources: xterm*colorULMode: on xterm*colorBDMode: on xterm*colorUL: magenta xterm*colorBD: blue and that creates a display that's easily read. Thanks for the immediate responses. BobG </body> </html>