Problem with yellow text in man pages -

[Lorenzo Zappi]

Bob Goodwin wrote:

> I'm using xfce 4.0.5-1 and Fedora Core 2 [kernel 2.6.8-1.521].
>
> I prefer to run xterm using black text on a white background which 
> works well for me except
> when I call a "man page." Many words are accented in yellow which is 
> unreadable against a
> white background. I usually avoid the problem by using "info" instead 
> of "man." But it seems
> to me there ought to be a better way. How can I force the man pages to 
> use only black text?
>
> I dealt with the color change by entering in the "command" window 
> under "Terminal" properties
> "xfterm4 -bg white  -fg black." That works as expected for everything 
> except man pages.
>
> Any help appreciated ...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob Goodwin, Zuni, Virginia
>
Bob,

edit your ~/.Xresourses and try to change colors for colorUL (maybe you 
need to change colorBL,colorDB as well)
    ...
    XTerm*colorUL: black
    ...
and then xrdb -merge .Xresources

Lorenzo