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Old 02-16-2002
Question xterm colors

I'm a new user to unix and I want to be able to pick and choose different xterm colors via 3rd botton menu. I'm currently pico'd into my .fvwm2rc file and this is what I have under my bottons:

Please advise


############
# Button 1 #
###########################################################################
# #
# We set things up so that if we click on the root-window with our left #
# mouse button, we get a list of window operations (move, resize, etc.) #
# This is also where we logout. #
# #
###########################################################################

AddToMenu Button1 "System Functions" Title
+ "Window Operations" Popup "WindowOps" Nop
+ "Window List" Module FvwmWinList
+ "" Nop
+ "Redraw Screen" Exec xrefresh
+ "Restart Fvwm" Restart fvwm2
+ "Logout" Quit

############
# Button 3 #
###########################################################################
# #
# Button3 (The right mouse button) contains a list of useful programs #
# (xterm, netscape, etc.) #
# #
# You'll notice that the "Rlogin" menu uses an Fvwm "Module" to pop up a #
# fill-in form that passes arguments to the "rlogin" command. This is #
# defined later on in the lines that start with "*Rlogin" #
# #
###########################################################################

AddToMenu Button3 "Utilities" Title
+ "Acroread" Exec acroread
+ "XTerm" Exec xterm -sb -sl 40000 &
+ "Aterm" Exec Aterm -tr -sh 100 -tint blue -sb -sl 2000 -bg 1 -fg 15 -fn 8x16
"Rlogin" Module FvwmForm Rlogin
+ "Netscape" Goto-or-Start Netscape
+ "Remedy" Goto-or-Start aruser
+ "Calculator" Exec xcalc
+ "Man Pages" Exec xman
+ "" Nop
+ "Dept Utils" Popup "DeptUtils" Nop
+ "" Nop
+ "XLock" Exec xlock -mode random &
+ "Logout" Quit
# 2  
Old 02-18-2002
blica777,
Hie can you state which unix variant are you using ? Asfar as i concern the file system for .fvwm2rc is for cygwin ( Windows based unix ). Correct me if im mistaken. Neway pls state what variant of *nix are you using.
# 3  
Old 02-18-2002
Question xterm colors

I'm using Solaris 8
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