xterm -fg white: Warning: Color name “white” is not defined

I’ve had problem with color names ever since around the time I’ve upgraded to Xorg 7.0 This problem as been annoying, but it was acceptable, just until lately. I’ve discovered that a required file /etc/X11/rgb.txt was involved, and was required for X to understand color mappings. For some reason, although x11-common 7.0.20 was supposed to…

I never quite remember it – extracting a specific file from tar archive

I always forget, and this blog is meant to help me remember. Found in Tar’s manual, are these simple directives: Have a file called file.tar, do: tar -xf file.tar full/path/without/trailing/slashes It can be a file or directory. You can have a list of files, such: tar -xf file.tar home/me home/you home/us/important-file Should do the trick.