Bug#247705: xterm: man page default colors do not match /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0-7
Severity: normal
The default colors listed in the man page for xterm are not the same
as those in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color.
(On an aside, I agree with the poster of bug #241717: the fact that
Debian's xterm has different default colors from pretty much every
other system on the planet is a pain. I've had to change a setting on
Debian that I've never had to change on another system. I respect
efforts in many corners of Debian to change established bad practice
for the better, but this one defeats the principle of least surprise
(the original default is to use pure colours at two fixed brightness
levels) for little obvious gain. OTOH, had the man page not been in
error I would probably never have even found that bug report to agree
with it...)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw7 4.3.0-7 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0-7 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0-7 X Window System client data
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