[6960] in testers
Re: 9.4 xterm reverse video broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 10 13:24:44 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jennifer Tu <jtu@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0504261125330.10779@cloud-of-doom.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:34 -0400, Jennifer Tu wrote:
> Under Athena 9.3 on any machine, if I type "xterm -rv", I get white text
> on a black background.
>
> Under Athena 9.4.1 on cheshire-cat.mit.edu, if I type "xterm -rv", I get
> black text on a white
I believe this behavior is due to two factors:
* gnome-settings-daemon has expanded in scope, and now sets X
resources to make X toolkit applications match the current gtk theme.
* "xterm -rv" behaves poorly when the background and foreground are
specified (either on the command line or through X resources). It sets
the reverse video bit but does not reverse the specified foreground and
background.
I've filed an upstream bug for the latter problem at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3261 but am unlikely to
pursue the matter further since there's an easy workaround.
