Re: several mac68k/X/pkg problems

[William Duke <wduke%cogeco.ca@localhost>]

On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 12:24 -0400, William Duke wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-16-05 at 02:51 -0400, thelarsons3%cox.net@localhost wrote:
> > When trying to run aterm (my preferred terminal app) I get a similar error 
> > ''aterm: can't load color "White", colorID = 0, (29)'' just before it 
> > aborts.  This package runs fine on the machine that built it.  I assume 
> > these are due to a missing definition file somewhere, but what?
> > 
> 
> I encountered this problem with aterm yesterday, while attempting to
> color match the foreground (text) color with that of xmms.  Do you know
> if there is a list of available colors for use in aterm?
> 
> I know all of the basic colors, like blue, green, red, yellow, white,
> etcetera.   I'm wondering if it's possible to get different shades or
> hues of a certain color though.   For example, I'm using aterm with
> transparency and a gray tint with a blue foreground, but I'd like to use
> a lighter blue than the one that I get by simply specifying -fg blue.
> 


Nevermind; I found the answer.   Seems I can just define the colors in
my Xdefaults file:

XTerm*color1:#cecece