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When I launch uxterm with the -fg black option, it ignores it and displays white text anyway. At least the cursor is black. When I add a -cr blue option, the cursor changes to blue. So only the foreground color is being ignored. No matter what color I set it to, the outcome is the same. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I took my Xdefaults file straight from the blue gray theme at http://code.suckless.org/hg/dextra/file … /bluegray/ if it matters. However, I thought that this would be overrided if the option was manually inputted. I also ran 'xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults' just to make sure it wasn't that. Thanks for your help.
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Apparently this was a problem with bash. It sets the text color by using the terminal's white setting instead of foreground. I discovered this when I tried loading the fish shell and discovered that I could actually see the text, except for the word "Type" which fish prints in white. I'm hesitant to call this solved because it seems wrong. Certainly there is a use for foreground colors? Why doesn't bash use it live every other console program?
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