xterm problem

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Thilo Six wrote:
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> Heinrich Rebehn schrieb am 01.02.2006 14:19:
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>>Hi all,
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> I run Ubuntu Breezy and my xterm with running mc looks like this:
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>>http://www.ant.uni-bremen.de/~rebehn/xterm-sarge.jpg
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>>Two problems can be seen:
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>>- the highlighted fonts are almost unreadable
>>- the scrollbar has wrong size
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> I guess through login via ssh you have a different home as well?
> Do you have a ~/.Xdefaults?
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>>Since both xterms are displayed on the same Xserver, it cannot be a font
>>issue.
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Sorry, i should have mentioned: The (automounted) home directory is the 
same on both hosts.

Doing an "strace -o /tmp/xterm.trace -f -e trace=file xterm" revealed 
that xterm is looking for "/home/rebehn/.Xdefaults-bremerhaven", not for 
~/.Xdefaults. Strange.

Anyway, you can see my .Xdefaults at:

http://www.ant.uni-bremen.de/~rebehn/.Xdefaults

and .Xresources at: http://www.ant.uni-bremen.de/~rebehn/.Xresources

Both contain mostly cruft. I should really clean them up.

Anyway, i cannot see any reason for the visible differences. Also, the 
app-defaults files are almost identical:

rebehn at bremerhaven [~]: diff /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm 
/misc/linux/debian-etch/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
10,13d9
< !
< ! SuSEs default behaviour (See Ubuntu #11316)
< !
< *charClass:  33:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,126:48,95:48
119,122d114
< ! Debian package customizations follow.
< *backarrowKeyIsErase: true
< *ptyInitialErase: true
<
127a120,123
 > ! Debian package customizations follow.
 > *backarrowKeyIsErase: true
 > *ptyInitialErase: true


BTW, the Debian distribution involved is Etch, not Sarge - sorry.

Any more ideas?

--Heinrich