Problem with yellow text in man pages -
Lorenzo Zappi
lorenzo.zappi at openwave.com
Sat Nov 6 12:18:02 UTC 2004
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 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
>
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
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