On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: >> X's default background for xterm is white; Debian sets it to black. >> Redhat and some others leave it as white. (I generally prefer black, >> since color contrasts work better against black). > > I prefer black too. I guess the issue here is, what colour does Ubuntu > want it to be for an xterm and a uxterm? I would have thought that > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color having these lines: > > ! Set the default text foreground and background colors. > *VT100*foreground: gray90 > *VT100*background: black > > suggests that black is what's intended. If that's the case we have a > bug. I'm a little unsure now though, maybe they just want xterm's to be > white by default and the above doesn't apply for some reason.
yes - I would think so, too. That is working as intended on my Debian/testing using fvwm2. Usually the reason for it failing to work would be some conflicting resource, e.g,. having reverseVideo set, or having some color definitions set. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs