[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2011-05-07 Thread Julien Cristau
Figured this one out... Ubuntu's /etc/gdm/Xsession doesn't set SYSRESOURCES (and USRRESOURCES) before sourcing /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources, so /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common is never read. ** Package changed: xterm (Ubuntu) = gdm (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-11-11 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Please note that xterm looks for ~/.Xdefaults-hostname, not ~/.Xdefaults: ik5...@penny:~ $ strace xterm pippo 21 ik5...@penny:~ $ grep Xdefault pippo open(/home/ik5pvx/.Xdefaults-penny, O_RDONLY) = 4 Setting *customization: -color in there solves this. Another workaround is to: cat

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-10-31 Thread Nigel Tamplin
On my system, Debian squeeze, the resource files for xterm are: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color xterm loads its resources from /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, but if you add the line XTerm*customization: -color To your ~/.Xdefaults file, then xterm loads will load

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-19 Thread Martin Stolle
Hi, is anyone working on this? It's really annoying 8-). I ran uxterm under strace and it appears to only look for UXTerm and _NOT_ UXTerm-color resources. Since x11-common is responsible for making it use -color, I looked for uxterm opening that file in the strace, but it appears to ignore

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Martin Stolle wrote: Hi, is anyone working on this? It's really annoying 8-). So far, Ubuntu ranks _last_ of all bug-tracking systems that I deal with, for getting things done. Perhaps the package maintainers tend to assume that all of the work is done in Debian. I ran

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-08 Thread frotz
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: What's the difference between Debian and Ubuntu to cause Debian's xterm background to be black? Backgrounds are black on Jaunty, but not Karmic and not Lucid. A dirty work-around is to use this command xterm -class XTerm-color to spawn an xterm. What

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 8 May 2010, frotz wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: What's the difference between Debian and Ubuntu to cause Debian's xterm background to be black? Backgrounds are black on Jaunty, but not Karmic and not Lucid. A dirty work-around is to use this command xterm -class

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 6 May 2010, frotz wrote: What's the difference between Debian and Ubuntu to cause Debian's xterm background to be black? Backgrounds are black on Jaunty, but not Karmic and not Lucid. A dirty work-around is to use this command xterm -class XTerm-color to spawn an xterm. What can I

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-05 Thread frotz
What's the difference between Debian and Ubuntu to cause Debian's xterm background to be black? Backgrounds are black on Jaunty, but not Karmic and not Lucid. A dirty work-around is to use this command xterm -class XTerm-color to spawn an xterm. What can I put in .Xresources to make an xterm

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-04-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Strangely, today I upgraded to the latest lucid packages and now my uxterm is white as well. -- 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-X, which is subscribed to xterm in

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Strangely, today I upgraded to the latest lucid packages and now my uxterm is white as well. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_256 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm background

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-03-04 Thread Gavin McCullagh
The contents of /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common are --- ! $Id$ ! 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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
The only (upstream) thing that comes to mind is to make the include-structure of the uxterm app-defaults files consistent with xterm. Doing that will make this user's windows both have a white background. I'm doing that for patch #256. I did notice that on my Debian/stable (sarge), that the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-03-03 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-03-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
[Resetting to incomplete since we need a response from the original reporter on this]. ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:09:14AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hmm, not sure how to go about fixing this. I can confirm the behavior. We're not doing anything in the xterm packaging to make it white rather than black in Ubuntu. Maybe something elsewhere in the system is causing it to show up white but I can't tell what that would be. Afaik we don't have a

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Hmm, not sure how to go about fixing this. I can confirm the behavior. We're not doing anything in the xterm packaging to make it white rather than black in Ubuntu. Maybe something elsewhere in the system is causing it to show up white but I can't

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:36:52PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Hmm, not sure how to go about fixing this. I can confirm the behavior. We're not doing anything in the xterm packaging to make it white rather than black in Ubuntu. Maybe something

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
Julian's comment #15 seems to be the best clue (though why it would be set for uxterm and not xterm, I don't know). -- 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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults, and the x11-common resource file is the same as from debian. -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults, and the x11-common resource file is the same as from debian. If I had something like that where I could test

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:09:14AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults, and the x11-common resource file is the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-11-15 Thread RĂ©mi
White color is awfull... please corect this bug :-) I have no idea of how correct it... but I can test patchs... -- 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-X, which is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-10-24 Thread Josha Foust
This would appear to be a regression of bug 26144. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26144 If you run xterm -class XTerm-color you get the correct colors. -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261 You received this bug notification because you

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
That sounds correct (it's not due to a change in xterm's sources, but in how the system is configured). -- 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-X, which is subscribed to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-10-01 Thread John Clemens
Please fix. Still happening to me with up to date Karmic. xterms come up white, even though: j...@localhost:/etc/X11/Xresources$ cat x11-common ! $Id$ ! load color-specific resources for clients that have them #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif ! make Xaw (Athena widget set) clients

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-09-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Tags added: karmic -- 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-X, which is subscribed to xterm in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-09-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Description changed: 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.

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-09-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 23:28:51 -, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 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:

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 23:28:51 -, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 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

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 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. X's default background for

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-30 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-30 Thread Jonas Pedersen
Just for your information xterm have white background on my Jaunty install (and on my vbox karmic as well). On Jaunty I am using xterm version 241-1ubuntu1 and on Karmic I am using version 243-1ubuntu1. -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
** 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 **

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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: ***

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: I downgraded and it made no difference, the xterms are still white: A packager may have made changes to the X resources which would show up in the output from xrdb -query. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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 -- xterm background colour used

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: 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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
** Attachment added: appres.xterm http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30995259/appres.xterm -- 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-X, which is subscribed to xterm in ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Gavin McCullagh
That should have read: I'm now starting to wonder if that's what I might have been using before. -- 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-X, which is subscribed to xterm in