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Changing the Text Highlight Color in Netscape

Maybe it's old age, but I have a lot of trouble seeing the text selection color in Netscape under Linux. The default is a light yellow. Changing to something bolder is easy - if you know where to look!

In your home directory, there is an invisible file called .Xdefaults. It contains color entries for many X applications. We will add our own entry for Netscape. Open this text file in your favorite editor and add the two new Netscape lines as shown below:

The Foreground color (white) is the color of the selected text . Background is the color of the Highlight box.

After adding the new parameters, save the .Xdefaults are launch Netscape. The new colors take effect immediately. Relief for old eyes...

Andrew Arthur has this to add to the tutorial on Netscape's highlight color:

If you use KDE 1.1.2 and Netscape 4.7, you can make Netscape use your color settings, by going to K Menu -> Settings -> Desktop -> Style and checking Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps. You will then need to either logout and relogin, or hit option-F2 then type 'kcontrol -init' and restart Netscape. It should then use the same colors and fonts your
KDE apps are set to -- especially nice if you use a non-standard grey color theme in KDE. You can change the colors (including the select color) in the KDE colors dialog. I love this feature, it makes Netscape look pretty and blend into my KDE desktop!

When Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps is applied, it should work give you the same fonts and colors as your KDE apps, in basically everything -- excluding gtk+ apps (which aren't currently supported by this feature -- since they use a non-standard configuration format). This includes motif, athena, tk and probably a few other apps that have a pretty much standard color arguments.

I don't know how I missed that setting, but it makes many applications, especially gnone programs, become more KDE friendly.
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