retitle 184935 xterm: instance resources not overriden by command-line options tag 184935 + upstream moreinfo thanks On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:44AM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 4.2.1-3 > > I have defined background color and foreground color of xterm in my > X-resources. > > xterm*vt100.background: black > xterm*vt100.foreground: orange These are instance definitions, not class definitions. Does anything change if you write your resources more like this (these are what I use personally:) XTerm.VT100.background: gray30 XTerm.VT100.foreground: gray90 > After that I can not override them with command line flags. For example > if I give this command, I still have orange text on black: > > xterm -ls -fg 'gray84' -bg '#00003c' -cr 'green' \ > -fn '-jmk-neep alt-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' & This same command, aside from not finding the James M. Knoble font that I don't have installed, works fine for me. xterm pops up with gray on navy blue, using the "fixed" font. Try re-casing your resource settings and see if that fixes it. Note that X resources have to be explicitly reloaded, whether by restarting the X server or with the xrdb command. -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it branden@debian.org | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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