Bug 1543

Summary:	Xterm: Reverse video setting is ignored if *background X resource is present
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Michael Grigoriev <mag>
Component:	App/xterm	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	6.7.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Michael Grigoriev 2004-10-05 21:32:50 UTC

Start 'xterm -rv' - it has reverse video as expected
add '*background:    #eaeaea' to your .Xdefaults or whatever and run 'xrdb
.Xdefaults'
run 'xterm -rv' again.

What happened to my reverse video?? It's gone!
Command line switches should always override config file settings...

Happens with both 191 and 196.

Comment 1 Michael Grigoriev 2004-10-05 21:49:34 UTC

PS. This is very annoying because gnome-settings-daemon (which is used by most
gnome applications) sets the background resourse.

Comment 2 Thomas Dickey 2004-11-23 03:51:59 UTC

xterm uses the standard calls XtOpenApplication or XtAppInitialize,
which interpret the reverse video option.  It is an implementation
detail of those calls whether the command line option overrides
other resource settings.

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