Customize xterm and aterm

By default, xterm is unbelievably unreadable. So we do this to fix it and make text a little bigger:

# xterm -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* -geometry 70x24 -bg black -fg gray

xterm is great, but aterm can be made transparent.

#aterm -bg black -fg gray -tr +sb +vb -geometry 70x24 -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*


These customaziations can also be made by modifying the .Xdefaults file located in a user's Home folder.

$ cat ~/.Xdefaults
# ATERM SETTINGS
# Aterm*cutchars: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~
Aterm*termName: xterm
aterm*loginShell: true
aterm*scrollBar: true
aterm*scrollBar_right: true
# aterm*saveLines: 32767
aterm*saveLines: 1000000000
aterm*geometry: 120x24

# aterm*background: #FFFFFF
aterm*background: #000000
# aterm*foreground: #000000
aterm*foreground: #80FF00
aterm*cursorColor: #80FF00

aterm*transparent: true
aterm*shading: 10
aterm*transpscrollbar: true
# aterm*tinting: gray

aterm*font: *-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
# aterm*font: *-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*--140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
# aterm*boldFont: *-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont: *-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

aterm*backspacekey: \010
aterm*deletekey: \177

# XTERM SETTINGS
XTerm*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
XTerm*eightBitInput: false