[ale] xterm border color

Steven A. DuChene sad at sduchene.mindspring.com
Mon Mar 18 23:08:08 EST 1996


Unix Guru Dude writes: 
> Okay, I've ripped out enough hair over this one.  I can fire up xterm and
> set the color of the window, text, text cursor and pointer cursor.  Whenever
> I use the border color flag '-bd' I always get one of two things.  Either
> the color that is defined in my .Xinitrc or a standard grey.  Where do
> I fix this so I can set the border color to what I want?
> 

        Are you sure you are not mistaking the xterm boarder for the
        boarder that is put around the window by the window manager?
        If so you need to change the window manager resource instead
        of the xterm resource.


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