Re: Xterm window color changes?
Re: Xterm window color changes?
- Subject: Re: Xterm window color changes?
- From: Michael Dugdale <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:32:01 -0400
Hmm... I just tried this with XQuartz 2.5.2 (xorg-server 1.8.2) on SnowLeopard. Colour doesn't change... it stays that (awful) shade of green.
On 2010-07-21, at 18:20 , David Borman wrote:
> Ok, this is a bit weird. I'm now running XQuartz, and when I start up an xterm with:
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> xterm -geometry 80x60+600+0 -bg palegreen
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> It comes up with the pale green background that I expect. Everything is fine, and I can use the window, and it stays the same color. Now here's the strange part. If I move the window, i.e., just grab the title bar and slide it over a little bit, now when I start typing the whole window changes to a lighter shade of green. I've never seen anything like this before! As long as I don't move the window, the color doesn't change.
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> And it isn't just this color, I start up other windows with "-bg cornsilk" and the same thing happens, but it isn't as noticeable since it is such a light shade to begin with.
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> Has anyone ever seen anything like this? It isn't xterm, because if I "ssh -X" over to a linux box and run "xterm -bg palegreen", I get the same results.
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> -David Borman
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