Bug#241717: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241717
> Debian Bug report logs - #241717
> xterm: various colour problems (mouse cursor color, text colours)
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>Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:10:52 +0200
>From: Marc Lehmann <pcg@schmorp.de>
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>This is wrong. If you don't believe me please ask somebody who knows more
>about X. The mouse cursor is application controllable and apps usually
>make ample use of that. xterm sets it to the insert cursor (or whatever is
>configured for xterm), sets the colours etc. and even has escape codes to
>control this appearance.
hmm - no: you're confusing the mouse pointer and the text cursor.
Let's settle on using the terminology in the xterm manpage.
>Nevertheless, the mousecursor is normally black-on-white (or
>black-on-gray90 if you like). Debian reverses the default colours for the
>text but leaves the mouse cursor colours black-on-white (or gray90) while
>correct colours are white-on-black (or gray90).
still confused.
>You can see the correct behaviour and correct appearance by starting xterm
>without te debian colours (white bg), or another terminal emulator such as
>rxvt-xpm or Eterm or pterm or just about anything else (I haven't found
>any emulator that does it wrong with the exception of rxvt-unicode, which
>is an old version which has been corrected upstream).
There aren't any old versions of rxvt-unicode.
>> Perhaps you could put a window dump of xterm up on the web somewhere so
>> we could have a look at this?
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>> What you're describing doesn't sound like Debian's defaults at all.
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>Here is an example:
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>http://data.plan9.de/x.png
The given picture only shows an outline for the text cursor,
corresponding to when focus is lost.
>The lower right terminal contains a much lighter blue (blue is often used
>as a background colour). The other terminals show more-or-less standard
>vt100 colours, the xterm shows a much more difficult-to-read combination
>(for me). The program used is alsamixer, but many other programs use this
>bg colour by default (mutt, irssi, epic4 I think etc..)
vt100's don't do colors. There are no standard vt100 colors.
See
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
for relevant discussion of Dodger blue.
>In addition, this colour change *is* a bug as the manpage documents the
>colours clearly, but the displayed colours are not in according to the
>manpage.
I already updated the manpage (see changelog)
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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