Reviewing the table, there's some information left out: a) without the app-defaults file, xterm would display black text on a white background. That is the X default, which the table assumes. b) however, Debian uses this chunk in the XTerm-color app-defaults file: ! Set the default text foreground and background colors. *VT100*foreground: gray90 *VT100*background: black c) the rest of the difference between expectation and actual results is the equating of the -rv/+rv command-line option with the reverseVideo resource. Whether that's intuitive or not, it's been the behavior since patch #94 - 1999/3/27 - XFree86 3.9Pf (separate menu settings for reverse video from that done under program control). Seems that we're discussing (c). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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