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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

>> 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.

yes - I would think so, too.  That is working as intended on my 
Debian/testing using fvwm2.  Usually the reason for it failing to work 
would be some conflicting resource, e.g,. having reverseVideo set, or
having some color definitions set.

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