{"id":629,"date":"2026-01-15T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/?p=629"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:56:10","slug":"xterm-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"xterm settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mostly work in terminals, so I want them to look the way I want them to look.<\/p>\n<p>I accomplish this by editing the .Xresources file.<\/p>\n<p>This is what a bare-bones .Xresources file looks like:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-631\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-631\" src=\"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260115_104739-300x60.png\" alt=\".Xresources\" width=\"515\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260115_104739-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/maboc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260115_104739.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.Xresources<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then do not forget to load the new resources into the X (or wayland?) server:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-632\" src=\"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260115_104922-300x25.png\" alt=\"loading X settings with xrdb\" width=\"516\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260115_104922-300x25.png 300w, https:\/\/maboc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260115_104922.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loading X settings with xrdb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you now launch a new xterm it will have the new settings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mostly work in terminals, so I want them to look the way I want them to look. I accomplish this by editing the .Xresources file. This is what a bare-bones .Xresources file looks like: Then do not forget to load the new resources into the X (or wayland?) server: If you now launch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58,99,98],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-xresources","tag-xterm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maboc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}