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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Xterm configuration

Overview


Xterm is the native Terminal emulator of X window system. This article will provide some useful options to configure Xterm to be usable and comfortable.
NOTE: This article was written for Arch Linux but can be applied to other Distros with some different approachs.

Xterm configuration


Config file location


Xterm is configured though X resources file ~/.Xresources , this file may not exist by default, you can manually create it with any text editor.