[5304] in Athena Bugs
bug in reversevideo switch of xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jun 27 00:57:36 1990
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 00:57:16 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: oliver@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5228]
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 90 11:36:15 EDT
From: James D. Oliver III <oliver@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Sorry to mess up the first day of the new release, but the -r (or -rv)
swtich, when used with xterm does not reverse the display, although the
menu option is checked as if it is.
I'm afraid you'll have to be a bit more specific than this, because
both "xterm -r" and "xterm -rv" work just fine for me.
The only possible explanation for your problem that I can think of is
that you set foreground and background explicitly in your .Xresources.
Note that if you do this, -r and -rv are *not* supposed to work --
they are only supposed to have an effect when either foreground or
background has been set (and they only affect the colors that were not
set explicitly).
I can't check if this is the case in your .Xresources file, because
your .Xresources file isn't world-readable. I can't check what else
may be the problem, because none of your dot files are world-readable.
If you don't set background and foreground explicitly, please make
your dotfiles readable and let me know by sending mail to bugs or to
me, and I'll look into it further.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
