On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:40:24 +1100 Geoff Wing : <gcw@pobox.com> sayeth:

>gabriel rosenkoetter wrote about Re: xterm v. xterm-old:
>:....
>:Is the fact that I have:
>:XTerm*Background: grey20
>:XTerm*Foreground: grey80
>:... in my .Xdefaults at all relevent?
>
>Ah, yes, seems to be.  Now I get the reverse line with v149 and
>uncoloured line with v88b (from XFree86 3.3.3.1b).
>
>Thomas, what's the status here?  Setting the Foreground via resource
>causes problems ...

Ahhhhh, yes, FWIW, on all three machines I have:

Wed Feb  7 15:48:43 on (anyof3).rse.com ~/tmp A) xrdb -query |grep -i term
XTerm*Foreground:       greenyellow
XTerm*Background:       dimgrey
*XTerm*font:    -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-22-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XTerm*font5:   -*-*-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XTerm*font6:   -*-*-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XTerm.geometry:        96x32+10+10

-Mike