Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch.
> I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and
> irritating) has happened to slrn. All the colours have been softened;
> it's as if everything has been replaced with pastels. Even white text
> on a black background has faded - it's now light gray text on a dark
> gray background. When I go to post or reply to a message, vim comes
> up and the screen snaps back to a crisp black and white, only to revert
> to washed-out colours when I return to slrn. Everything else (e.g.
> console windows) is OK - it's just slrn which is affected.
>
> My .slrnrc is unchanged. What has happened to my colours? And more
> importantly, how do I get them back to where they were?
>
What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you
fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three
wildly different code bases)
-dsr-
Reply to: