Tweeking xterm -title

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

(/usr/pkg/bin/xterm    -geometry 80x46+0+0    -title  "$(date "+%A
----- %d - %B - %Y")"  )  &


Print todays-name and date.
How do I print it as black-text in the xterm-frame??

AND why can I only do this on the first xterm ??
startx -- --   fails for some reason.