[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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