xterm phenomena

[Harry Putnam]

Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:14, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> WHOOPS , Yeah, that part is green here too, if I remove .Xdefaults from
>> the action.
>> 
>> Funny thing, in renaming .Xdefaults then naming it back suddenly I
>> get the behavior I wanted... Bold white and OPTION and FILE appear
>> yellow, so it appears my problem may be operator error. but also I
>> should be able to figure out what sets what.  I'll post back if I
>> figure it out.  (Assuming anyone cares to know)
>
> 	Heh, it also could be the system just messing with you.  I've had that
> happen to me on occasion.  :-)

I've learned what attribute or xresource sets what you see
as Bold Blue and I see as Bold White,

  *VT100*colorBD:

What was causing my bold stuff to disappear (really it was turning
black on a black xterm).  Mine was set like this:

  *VT100*colorBD:       black

But oddly that same setting on gnome/sawfish xterms doesn't disappear
on a black xterm (I mean real xterm not some other term like
gnome-terminal) So apparently some other things come into play
depending on wm.