rxvt color

[cga]

I have an problem. When I start an rxvt from the menu or the Window Maker doc, I do not have color text. I do have color for MC and Vim.

If I launch a second rxvt from the first, it has color and if I su in the first, the su login has color.

WTF? And it just stated this when I tried to set a different background color ie rxvt -bg grey -fg black from inside a properly working rxvt.

Any ideas?

[Schotty]

Isn't there a config file for it? Try diving into that. It may have an obvious line. I had some fubar crap with KDE that was royally pissing me off and the config files told me alot of how my system was setup by just glossing over the conf file.

[gorn]

~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults

have something like:

rxvt*background: darkgreen
rxvt*foreground: yellow
rxvt*transparent: false
rxvt*transpscrollbar: false
rxvt*shading: 60
rxvt*scrollBar: true
rxvt*iconName: xterm
rxvt*scrollBar_right: true
rxvt*scrollTtyOutput: true
rxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: true
rxvt*font: 8x13
rxvt*backspacekey: ^?
rxvt*saveLines: 4096

thats what i have at least.

[cga]

Well, it was a Window Maker thing. I use a script to launch rxvt in the dock so that I can launch multiple rxvt sessions from the docked icon. I had it somehow borked to where it was not loading my settings.

Now I have it fixed and it works just fine.