> > 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