Re: fixing XTerm colors

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:51:15AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>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?

I've never liked the black background and always end up killing the started
xterm and starting a new one with my soothing defaults.

cgf