Changing Xterm's Configuration

[John Lowell <johnlowell@ameritech.net>]

Having altered and realtered the appearance of xterm countless times in  
various distros, I'm baffled as to why it is that the standard  
approaches to changing something as simple as foreground color don't  
work in Debian. Using both command line items in the fluxbox menu or by  
creating and editing an ~/.Xdefaults, my xterminal seems impervious to  
positive alteration. I can change -fg to black from white after having  
selected -bg gray, for example, and nothing at all happens. What am I  
missing here?

jlowell