Bug#241717: xterm: various colour problems (mouse cursor color, text colours)

[Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0-7
Severity: minor

The xterm mouse cursor is a thin line, under debians xterm, it's much
thicker.

Specifying -rv restores the original cursor (but does not do reverse
video, see bug #239510, which is probably related).

It seems that debians xterm does not set mouse cursor colours correctly
and defaults to white background and black foreground, while the default
config specifies black background on white foreground, which is probably
why -rv fixes this as it correctly swaps background and foreground for all
items.

Another colour problem: debian also changed default colours of
xterm, which makes coloured text very hard to read, especially for
colour-impaired people like me (it's very difficult for me to decipher
e.g. the alsamixer labels in xterm, other shells work fine). The original
xterm colours are much easier on my eyes, due to the much increased
contrast.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
hi  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
hi  libexpat1                   1.95.6-4     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.1-8      generic font configuration library
hi  libfreetype6                2.1.5-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-2        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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