Bug#167495: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#167495: xterm: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color shouldn't define unnecessary resources)

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:12:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I got the latter two to work by saying the following:
> 
> *VT100.Scrollbar.background:          grey
> *VT100.Scrollbar.foreground:          black

This is not surprising, but this is not an acceptable solution for me,
just a hack.

> I'm not sure why the VT100 is necessary; my system has no resource
> settings more specific than *Scrollbar that would cause the settings you
> specified to be ignored.
> 
> So there may be a bug Xrm, Athena, or XTerm here.

But where to report the bug?

> Changing the thickness doesn't work at all, probably because its effect
> is overriden by the usage of "backgroundPixmap".  Also see Debian Bug
> #147753.

IMHO, when the user sets something, the conflicting resources should be
disabled.

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