Change Linuxcnc axis background colour to White

i am using Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx LTS for Linuxcnc. I have read in the User Manual that the linuvcnc axis screen (where the workpiece is shown) can be changed from black to white.

I opened a terminal window and entered the following, as it is written in the User Manual:
xrdb -merge /usr/share/doc/emc2/axis_light_background
xrdb -merge /usr/share/doc/emc2/axis_big_dro
nothing changed.

I searched for the file xrdb and found it in the Linuxcnc folder. So I replaced the /emc2/ part of the path to /linuxcnc/, still no change.

Am I missing something, not doing it correctly etc? As I am totally new to both Linux and CNC stuff any help at all would be most appreciated.

Hi

I know nothing about any docs, but think you are referring to this thread.
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/german/forum/...gui?limit=6&start=12

You will not have any directory called /usr/share/doc/emc2 it will now be /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc
that was an old thread

Those lines should be in a file called .Xresources in your home folder. The file is used by the X window system to set the colour schemes etc
for different programs.

See if you can adjust the paths to match where the files actually are and create / or edit the .Xresources file using sudo gedit in a terminal.

regards