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Re: fixing XTerm colors


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Michael Wardle wrote:

> It seems that "startx" starts an XTerm with a yellow foreground and a 
> black background, but subsequent invocations of XTerm will use the 
> user's settings.
> 
> To me this presents two problems:
> - subsequent XTerms look different from the initial one
> - user's settings are disrespected by the initial one

There basicly problems with either side. Setting defaults which differ from 
the defaults from the xterm distribution may lead to confision too (xterm on
cygwin does look different than xterm on linux). Starting xterm with default
configuration will create a window which differs from the cygwin console (I
think this was the main reason for changing the colors despite personal 
preferences of the editor). Changing this now may also lead to some confusion
(Xterm does now display a yellow background but was black before. Help!!!)

So there are basicly two solutions: 

- remove the options and start xterm the way it is supposed to
- keep the old behaviour

Other comments?

bye
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