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mjunx

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 17

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XTerm colours screwed up after upgrade.

After a system upgrade back on Sunday, xterm always starts up with black text on a black background. I just tried running it from another terminal instead of via KRunner, and I got the following warnings:

Warning: Color name "WINDOW_BACKGROUND" is not defined
Warning: Color name "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" is not defined

I've never really tried to customise xterm before as I usually like the defaults (and I typically use GNU screen anyway), but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it back to a usable state. In the meantime, I've just been using Konsole.

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: XTerm colours screwed up after upgrade.

Maybe try a defined .Xdefaults so this type of thing won't happen in the future.  See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: XTerm colours screwed up after upgrade.

Is your system up-to-date? I think this has been fixed already.

mjunx

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 17

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Re: XTerm colours screwed up after upgrade.

Oh thank god, it's finally fixed.