Strangely, today I upgraded to the latest lucid packages and now my
uxterm is white as well.
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xterm background colour used to be black, now white
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261
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The contents of /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common are
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! $Id$
! load color-specific resources for clients that have them
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
! make Xaw (Athena widget set) clients understand the delete key
! this causes
The information that seems to be missing is,
> a) what was the previous version of xterm used?
I'm really not sure at this point to be honest.
> b) if you install the previous version of xterm in the current
> environment, does it still behave properly?
I've tried installing xterm packages from
> 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
That should have read:
"I'm now starting to wonder if that's what I might have been using
before."
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** Attachment added: "appres.xterm"
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UXTerm is an interesting one to check. I switched over to it and it
gets the black background as expected. I'm not starting to wonder if
that's what I might have been using before. Maybe xterm has always been
white.
I'll attach the output of the two appres commands. It appears that
uxterm is t
gavi...@teenie:~$ xrdb -query
Xcursor.size: 18
Xcursor.theme: Human
Xcursor.theme_core: true
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi:96
Xft.hinting:1
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
Not sure I see anything there
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xterm background colour used t
I downgraded and it made no difference, the xterms are still white:
gavi...@teenie:~$ apt-cache policy xterm
xterm:
Installed: 241-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 241-1ubuntu1
Package pin: 241-1ubuntu1
Version table:
243-1ubuntu1 6000
500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
The problem started when I first upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic. That was a
month or so back.
The jaunty version is 241-1ubuntu1. The current version is
243-1ubuntu1
gavi...@teenie:~$ apt-cache policy xterm
xterm:
Installed: 243-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 243-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 243-1ubuntu
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30992127/BootDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30992128/CurrentDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30992129/Dependencies.txt
** A
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xterm
Since upgrading my Acer Aspire One to Karmic, my xterms always have a
white background.
Looking at /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, it appears it should be
black:
! Set the default text foreground and background colors.
*VT100*foreground: gray9
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