Re: emacsclient and reverseVideo in Xresources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:47:04 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
> 
> - "emacs" launches a window with dark background
> - "emacsclient -c" launches a window with dark background
> - "emacs -nw" launches emacs with dark background in the terminal
> - "emacsclient -nw" launches emacsclient in the terminal with WHITE 
> background!
> 
> Why is the last one happening?

Because text-mode frames aren't sensitive to X resources: they don't
use X services to display text.