Lo, on Monday, January 6, will trillich did write: <snip>
>From /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color: > > ! The following two sections take advantage of new features in version 7 > > ! of the Athena widget library. Comment them out if you have a shallow > > ! color depth. ... or if you use a dark background with your xterms, like I do.... > > *mainMenu*backgroundPixmap: > > gradient:vertical?dimension=350&start=gray90&end=gray60 > > *mainMenu*foreground: gray15 > > *vtMenu*backgroundPixmap: > > gradient:vertical?dimension=445&start=gray90&end=gray60 > > *vtMenu*foreground: gray15 > > *fontMenu*backgroundPixmap: > > gradient:vertical?dimension=220&start=gray90&end=gray60 > > *fontMenu*foreground: gray15 > > *tekMenu*backgroundPixmap: > > gradient:vertical?dimension=205&start=gray90&end=gray60 > > *tekMenu*foreground: gray15 > <snip> > > aha! that's exactly the same as mine, and yet gray15 appears to > be misinterpreted as white on my menus. i commented out that > whole section (quoted above) and they're now hideous, but i can > read them all. What does `hideous' mean here, specifically? I commented these same lines out back when I upgraded to woody, and now my xterm menus look fine---same foreground and background colors as the main terminal window. I'd think you'd get the same results (unless you've set these resources with xrdb or something). Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]