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I'm currently using an SSH client to interact with my server at work, and I've been wanting to change the default font and color scheme for a while now.

I learned that I needed to figure out how to do that for my specific terminal emulator, and that happens to be Xterm. The answers that I found here say that after creating a .Xresources file to run the command:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

but when I run it I get the message:

The program 'xrdb' is currently not installed. To run 'xrdb' please ask your administrator to install the package 'x11-xserver-utils'

Unfortunately I don't have admin privileges. Is there any way to work around this? Thanks.

Sean
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  • What exactly do you mean by "using an SSH client to interact with"? are you running an Xterm on the remote server and displaying it on your local system via X forwarding? or does the SSH client provide its own local terminal? – steeldriver Apr 09 '20 at 11:48
  • Perhaps my wording was ambiguous, but I wasn't sure how to explain it. It's the former. – Sean Apr 09 '20 at 12:09
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    Well if you're invoking `xterm` on the remote system, perhaps the simplest workaround is to do so with explicit `-fg` / `-bg` / `-fn` options? – steeldriver Apr 09 '20 at 12:39

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