Why xterm fails to set foreground or background color in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ?
Issue
- The command
xterm -fgorxterm -bgdo not work on RHEL7 unless both-bgand-fgoptions are defined. - Running the command
xterm -fg xxwill change the color of the scroll bar but does not change the foreground text color.
# /usr/bin/xterm -fg red
Warning: Color name "WINDOW_BACKGROUND" is not defined
xterm: unable to allocate fg/bg colors
#
- Running the command
xterm -bg xxwill change the color of the scroll bar but does not change the background color.
# xterm -bg green
xterm: unable to allocate fg/bg colors
Warning: Color name "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" is not defined
#
- Specifying both, foreground and background colors works correctly.
# xterm -bg green -fg red
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- xterm-295-3.el7.x86_64
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