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From: bob@odi.COM (Bob Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: -rv vs. background/foreground resources
Message-ID: <9002271527.AA03639@hendrix.odi.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 15:27:04 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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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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