[Xquartz-dev] xterm goes black
Jeremy Huddleston
jeremyhu at apple.com
Sun Aug 22 22:42:27 PDT 2010
The problem is that we can't rely on a C Pre-Processor to be on the system, so we don't pre-process the ~/.Xresources file ... here's a similar bug report with a bit more info from Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/21392
On Aug 22, 2010, at 20:07, Christof Wolf wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> I am on 2.6.0 alpha2, xorg-server 1.8.99.906, something strange happens to
> xterm. If I start X11 there is one xterm window open - which is fine, but if
> I start another one from the menu (edit>xterm) I got a black window.
>
> I got following messages:
>
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] X11.app
> Handing off fd to server thread via DarwinListenOnOpenFD(6)
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261]
> DarwinListenOnOpenFD: 6
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Calling
> ListenOnOpenFD() for new fd: 6
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] X11.app:
> Launching /opt/X11/bin/xterm:
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] argv[0]
> = /bin/sh
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] argv[1] = -c
> 22.08.10 22:00:24 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] argv[2]
> = /opt/X11/bin/xterm
> 22.08.10 22:00:39 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Warning: Color
> name "BACKGROUND" is not defined
> 22.08.10 22:00:39 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Warning: Color
> name "FOREGROUND" is not defined
> 22.08.10 22:00:39 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Warning: Color
> name "WINDOW_BACKGROUND" is not defined
> 22.08.10 22:00:46 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Warning: Color
> name "BACKGROUND" is not defined
> 22.08.10 22:00:50 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Warning: Color
> name "WINDOW_BACKGROUND" is not defined
> 22.08.10 22:00:50 [0x0-0x1c01c].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[261] Warning: Color
> name "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" is not defined
>
> I can start any xterm from KDE - and its just fine.
>
> any idea?
>
> Christof
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