Master lectures: Customize Xterm, the original and best terminal…

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1. root@debian:~# vim /root/.Xresources

2. content of the file

! Use a nice truetype font and size by default...

xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Book

xterm*faceSize: 12

! Every shell is a login shell by default (for inclusion of all necessary environment variables)

xterm*loginshell: true

! I like a LOT of scrollback...

xterm*savelines: 16384

! double-click to select whole URLs :D

xterm*charClass: 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48

! DOS-box colours...

xterm*foreground: white

xterm*background: balck

xterm*cursorColor: green

xterm*color0: rgb:00/00/00

xterm*color1: rgb:a8/00/00

xterm*color2: rgb:00/a8/00

xterm*color3: rgb:a8/54/00

xterm*color4: rgb:00/00/a8

xterm*color5: rgb:a8/00/a8

xterm*color6: rgb:00/a8/a8

xterm*color7: rgb:a8/a8/a8

xterm*color8: rgb:54/54/54

xterm*color9: rgb:fc/54/54

xterm*color10: rgb:54/fc/54

xterm*color11: rgb:fc/fc/54

xterm*color12: rgb:54/54/fc

xterm*color13: rgb:fc/54/fc

xterm*color14: rgb:54/fc/fc

xterm*color15: rgb:fc/fc/fc

! right hand side scrollbar...

xterm*rightScrollBar: true

xterm*ScrollBar: true

! stop output to terminal from jumping down to bottom of scroll again

xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false

3. xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

4. default configuration

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

5. xrdb -load /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

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