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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

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 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'll attach the output of the two appres commands.  It appears that
> uxterm is the only one that has the settings.
>
> ** Attachment added: "appres.uxterm"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30995239/appres.uxterm
>
> -- 
> xterm background colour used to be black, now white
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261
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> in ubuntu.
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xterm background colour used to be black, now white
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261
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