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Article #37557-rv vs. background/foreground resources
From: Bob Miner
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 15:27
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 15:27
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If an X client supports both the -rv (reverse video) command line
option AND supports background and foreground resources, is there
any official or defacto standard on how the 2 should interact?
For example, if the person is starting some X application called
'xapp' and has resources as shown in their .Xdefaults file:
xapp*background: Black
xapp*foreground: White
and starts xapp with the command
xapp -rv &
should xapp have a black foreground on a white background or vica-versa?
I tried this with xterm (X11R3) and emacs and they gave opposite results.
xterm gave me a black foreground on white background (in essence doing
a double negative) and emacs gave me white foreground on black background.
I realize that this is a somewhat silly question. But, heh, I like silly
questions now and then. It's not that silly, however, in that I have to
choose one or the other behavior for my X applications.
Bob Miner
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