Mystery regarding rendering of ANSI colors in xterm

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@shiba.ucsd.edu>]

Hello!

Here is the mystery: When I start Xfree using gdm or kdm, in xterm, the
standard blue (used by default for directories) looks like turquoise or
light blue. However, when I use startx from a VT, the blue is dark as it
is in wterm or on the console. Does anyone here know the reason why?

I'm running an up-to-date woody installation with aa font support through
Xft. I only started using xterm in addition to wterm recently when I
enabled aa fonts, so I don't know if the anti-aliasing support is related.
The xterm colors appear to have this behavior with aa fonts as well as
with standard fixed fonts.

[Please reply directly to me as well as to the list.]

Thanks.

-- Syrus

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