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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 May 2010, frotz 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 -

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xterm background colour used to be black, now white
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