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 can I put in .Xresources to make >> an xterm always assume that it should use the XTerm-color class? > > Debian sets the background color by a modification to > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, combined with > the /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common file. That's been discussed, pointed > out where to look
Looking at the links associated with this bug, I don't see anything about a resource setting that forces xterm to use XTerm-color as if it was specified on the command line. -- 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