On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
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> > This time spent is clearly below what a human would need to type in "xrdb -merge
> > ~/.Xresources" manually and way below what a human is able to perceive. But
> > complaining on this regression might belong to a different bug, I guess.
> > Anyway, having said all that, what's the "official" way to have the uxterm
> > default colors *automatically* white-on-black now?
>
> well... it's not a bug in xterm,
> but rather a deficiency in packaging or configuration.
The command-line option -rv is the easy way to turn on reverse-video:
-rv This option indicates that reverse video should be simulated by
swapping the foreground and background colors. The
corresponding resource name is reverseVideo.
and if I wanted to make my .xinitrc more portable, I'd use -fg and -bg
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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