Bug#239510: xterm: Reverse video specification broken

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:36:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> retitle 239510 xterm: [-+]rv command-line options and reverseVideo resource seem to have no effect
> tag 239510 + moreinfo
> thanks

As of 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6, I cannot reproduce this bug.

FYI, I had never customized any app-defaults for xterm on this machine.
Feel free to close it.

-- John

> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:51:33PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > xterm, on startup, always displays black text on a white background.
> > That is, the following three commands do the exact same thing:
> > 
> > xterm
> > xterm -rv
> > xterm +rv
> > 
> > Also, specifying XTerm*reverseVideo: true does not alter the startup
> > colors.
> > 
> > However, selecting reverse video from the middle-mouse-button menu will
> > toggle the colors.
> > 
> > I'm somewhat puzzled.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Thomas Dickey, the upstream XTerm maintainer, had a look at this bug report
> and suspects there might be a problem with customized app-defaults.
> 
> Can you go over the logs of this bug, let us know if you think that might
> be the case for you, and let us know if you can still reproduce this
> problem?
> 
> -- 
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