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>fvwm95-Wharf: xterm comes out black?</H3>
<p><strong>From Siddharth Kashyap on Fri, 05 Mar 1999
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In fvwm95, I start Wharf. Through I click at xterm icon. This
gives me a DARK BLACK xterm window. Please help. This only happens
when I enter as a user, not root. I am using
<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A> Linux 5.2
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Try renaming your user's <tt>~/.Xdefaults</tt> file temporarily.
The possibility is that you have some weird settings
therein that are starting your xterm with both the
foreground (<TT>-fg</TT>) and the background (<TT>-bg</TT>) set to black.
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I'm not familiar with this "Wharf." I presume it's a
fvwm-95 "module" or a small applet which gives you a
little "applications dock" --- like AfterStep and the
old NeXT desktop, perhaps. If that's the case ---
perhaps you have to check some configuration file for
Wharf to see if it is starting your xterm with weird
command line options.
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One trick you can try is to go to a text mode terminal
using [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F2] or such (log in as the same user
that is running your X session) and start an xterm from
there. You could use the following command:
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xterm -display :0 -bg cyan -fg black
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... which will start the '<TT>xterm</TT>' from outside of that
process group. Assuming that this works --- it suggests
that your configuration somehow has some weird settings
for launching its xterms. We're bypassing those settings
and manually starting one.
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The the challenge is to track down which part of your system
is harboring those settings.
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<p><strong>From Siddharth Kashyap on Fri, 05 Mar 1999
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I have <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A> Linux 5.2
I want to know is this a bug. In the
fvwm95 I start something called Wharf. (If you click your mouse
on the desktop, you get some options. One of them is Sytem
Utilities. In System Utilities, there is Wharf). When you
click at Wharf it opens an icon bar. One of the icon is for
xterm. When I click at the icon I get a blank xterm
window. Please help me.
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See my other answer to this question.
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