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Bug#147753: marked as done (xterm: either -bg and -fg should affect only the terminal widgets, or -bg should clobber the Athena backgroundPixmap resource)

Your message dated Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:54:07 -0500
with message-id <20120108145407.GA14425@debian50-32.invisible-island.net>
and subject line re: #147753 xterm: either -bg and -fg should affect only the	terminal widgets, or -bg should clobber the Athena backgroundPixmap	resource
has caused the Debian Bug report #147753,
regarding xterm: either -bg and -fg should affect only the terminal widgets, or -bg should clobber the Athena backgroundPixmap resource
to be marked as done.

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Package: xterm
Version: 4.1.0-16
Followup-For: Bug #147667
Severity: normal

I work with Vivek (the gentleman who originally filed this bug) and I also
experience the behaviour he described.

I invoke xterms with "xterm -bg black -fg white"

I see the foreground of the menu change colour to white, but not the
background. This makes the menu somewhat unreadable. If I invoke xterm with
no arguments, then it seems to behave as you'd expect.

I use the -bg and -fg arguments to allow me to differentiate between xterms
more easily -- I'm not convinced that the behaviour I'm seeing is due to the
same reasons vivek is seeing it, but it it still a problem. Either the menu
should honour the -bg flag, or there should be a commandline option to alter
the menu background also.

It is of course, quite possible that I have merely missed the relevant
commandline argument when reading the xterm manual page; but I submit that a
2800 line manpage is easy to lose stuff in.

Regards,

Daniel

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux coma 2.4.17preempt-xfs #1 Thu Feb 7 18:59:54 GMT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  debconf                  1.0.32          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6             2.0.9-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                  4.1.0-16        X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibs                    4.1.0-16        X Window System client libraries

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The options -fg/-bg are handled by X Toolkit.  xterm can infer some
things to improve the behavior (and this has been addressed in more
than one way).  The original problem here appears to be from a
conflicting user-specified resource (which won't be fixed by any
improvements to -fg/-bg handling).

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