Bug#184395: xterm do not obey all command line flags

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, +06:41:28 EET (UTC +0200),
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> pressed some keys:

> 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

Thanks! That helped. Now I can have orange text on black by default and
I can override them with commandline flags.

Feel free to close this bug.

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