Lo, on Monday, January 6, will trillich did write:
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From /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color:
! The following two sections take advantage of new features in version 7
! of the Athena widget library. Comment them out if you have a shallow
! color depth.
... or if you use a dark background with your xterms, like I do....
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aha! that's exactly the same as mine, and yet gray15 appears to
be misinterpreted as white on my menus. i commented out that
whole section (quoted above) and they're now hideous, but i can
read them all.
What does `hideous' mean here, specifically? I commented these same
lines out back when I upgraded to woody, and now my xterm menus look
fine---same foreground and background colors as the main terminal
window. I'd think you'd get the same results (unless you've set these
resources with xrdb or something).