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[Nigel Tamplin <421261@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On my system, Debian squeeze, the resource files for xterm are:

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color

xterm loads its resources from /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, but if you
add the line

XTerm*customization: -color

To your ~/.Xdefaults file, then xterm loads will load its resources from
file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color instead.

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color includes everything from /etc/X11/app-
defaults/XTerm plus sets the colors to give you white text on black
background (or whatever is defined in XTerm-color)

You can even put:
*customization: -color
in your ~/.Xdefaults and then all apps, not just xterm, will use the ???-color resource files.

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