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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 May 2010, Martin Stolle wrote:

> Hi, is anyone working on this?  It's really annoying 8-).

So far, Ubuntu ranks _last_ of all bug-tracking systems that I deal with,
for getting things done.  Perhaps the package maintainers tend to assume 
that all of the work is done in Debian.

> I ran uxterm under strace and it appears to only look for UXTerm and
> _NOT_ UXTerm-color resources.  Since x11-common is responsible for
> making it use -color, I looked for uxterm opening that file in the
> strace, but it appears to ignore that file.  If I manually xrdb
> -override  that file, it works as expected.
>
> In conclusion, the root bug seems to be that uxterm does not (or no
> longer) consults /etc/X11/Xresources/x11-common   Could this be a
> regression in Xt?  Can this be fixed, maybe?  Or is this an unintended
> side-effect of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570447 ?

It could be similar, but this report is older than #570447

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xterm background colour used to be black, now white
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