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 >>> 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.
setting "*customization:color" does this. That's set in x11-common. For some systems (without that detail), I do the same thing by putting the setting in my $HOME/.Xdefaults; however not all sessions startup using _that_ value. (But for Ubuntu, my understanding is that it should work using the x11-common value - however other comments let me see that KDE has added some additional breakage of X-resources which needs to be explained). -- 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-X, which is subscribed to xterm in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
