On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:55:01AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 278-1 > > Hello, > > After a recent upgrade of xterm (278), text no longer shows up in > xterm with the options I normally use: > > xterm -bg black -fg white > > The screen is black in xterms now, it does not honor the foreground > color? Unless I run it without these arguments, I have downgraded to > xterm 261 (still in the FTP dir) and all works normally again.
I don't see this behavior in an update to Debian/unstable, or Debian/testing. It's possible that there's some X resource setting on your machine which has foreground pre-set, making it impossible to override. That would be either a local customization, or some desktop junk (KDE's been an offender in this area, for instance). Some details about the X resources, e.g., as seen by appres and the window manager/desktop might show the problem. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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