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[Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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 uxterm?  I would have thought that
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color having these lines:

  ! Set the default text foreground and background colors.
  *VT100*foreground: gray90
  *VT100*background: black

suggests that black is what's intended.  If that's the case we have a
bug.  I'm a little unsure now though, maybe they just want xterm's to be
white by default and the above doesn't apply for some reason.

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