xterm phenomena

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Thu Aug 22 03:11:47 CEST 2002


Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

> Good try and pretty close too.  It turned out to be a setting in my
> own .Xdefaults:
>   *vt100BD: black
> RedHats default is white.
>
> Somehow that gets overwridden in a gnome/sawfish desktop and you don't
> see the problem.  However in Xfce, like a good wm should, it obeyed
> what it found in .Xdefaults.  Turned Bold characters black rendering
> them invisible on my black xterm.

I have to bite my tongue on this.  I just tested gnome/sawfish and it 
DOES NOT ignore the settings in .Xdefaults.

This points once again to operator bumbling.  But at least this
bumble resulted in getting some good new information.



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