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.

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xterm background colour used to be black, now white
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261
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