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Attractive aterm/rxvt .Xdefaults configuration

November 4, 2007 By Major Hayden 1 Comment

I’ve struggled at times to get a decent-looking terminal on my desktop, and I believe I’ve found a good one. Toss this into your ~/.Xdefaults:

aterm*loginShell:true

aterm*transparent:true

aterm*shading:40

aterm*background:Black

aterm*foreground:White

aterm*scrollBar:true

aterm*scrollBar_right:true

aterm*transpscrollbar:true

aterm*saveLines:32767

aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

aterm*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

Then load up the changes and start aterm:

$ xrdb -load .Xdefaults

$ aterm

Of course, if you like rxvt better for your Unicode needs, just use this configuration:

rxvt*loginShell:true

rxvt*transparent:true

rxvt*shading:40

rxvt*background:Black

rxvt*foreground:White

rxvt*scrollBar:true

rxvt*scrollBar_right:true

rxvt*transpscrollbar:true

rxvt*saveLines:32767

rxvt*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

rxvt*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1