Re: emacsclient and reverseVideo in Xresources

[Javier]

Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net> wrote:
> - I am launching emacs from within a dark xterm, all commands are manual
> - "emacs -nw" launches emacs with the same (dark) background *in the same 
> terminal*
> - "emacs -Q -nw" behaves the same (-Q explicitly skips processing of 
> Xresources)
> - "emacsclient -nw" launches emacs with white background *in the same 
> terminal*, i.e. it reverses the colours!
> - My .Xresources instructs all X applications to reverse colours with this 
> line: "*reverseVideo: true"
> - The same colour reversals mentioned above happen also when I start emacs 
> from a white-background xterm (using "xterm +rv")
> 
> My findings so far indicate that emacs-server loads my Xresources file and 
> sets some internal state that instructs all new emacsclient instances to 
> reverse colours. I believe that this should happen only if emacsclient is 
> not opening the new frame as a console application.

I get the same as you.  To make the thing faster to reproduce:

emacs -xrm 'emacs*reverseVideo: true' --exec \
     '(progn (setq server-name "reverseVideo_TRUE_server")
             (server-start)
             (insert server-name))' &
emacs -xrm 'emacs*reverseVideo: false' --exec \
     '(progn (setq server-name "reverseVideo_FALSE_server")
             (server-start)
             (insert server-name))' &
sleep 2
xterm -e emacsclient -nw -s reverseVideo_TRUE_server  &
xterm -e emacsclient -nw -s reverseVideo_FALSE_server &