Bug#650291: xterm -bg/-fg doesn't choose nearest colour the hardware supports
Package: xterm
Version: 261-1
Severity: minor
When specifying colours not supported by the hardware, xterm does not
choose the nearest hardware colour.
For example:
xterm -bg '#9c009c009c00'
On a standard 24 bit colour server, the nearest colour is #9b9b9b9b9b9b,
but xterm chooses #9c9c9c9c9c9c.
Likewise, for e.g. -bg '#ff00ff00ff00', xterm chooses #fffffffffff,
which is much farther then the nearest colour supported by the display
(#fefefefefefe) - xterm's chosen colour has a difference of 255 units per
component to the requested colour, while the nearest colour the display
supports only has a difference of only 2 units, which is a considerable
difference).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
hi libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libutempter0 1.1.5-3 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities
ii xutils 1:7.5+8 X Window System utility programs m
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.1 Cyrillic fonts for X
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