Bug 1176752

Summary:	Color configuration disregarded
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora>
Component:	konsole	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	21	CC:	jgrulich, jreznik, kevin, rdieter, rnovacek, than
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Description Orcan Ogetbil 2014-12-23 03:52:38 UTC

The color settings in Settings->Edit Current
Profile->Appearance->Edit... are ineffective in Konsole. No matter
what I change the individual colors to, my Konsole colors stay the
same.

I found that the problem lies in /etc/profile.d/256term.sh, which
checks for the existence of the environment variable
KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION and, in its presence, sets TERM=xterm-256color. This file belongs to the initscripts package.

When TERM is "xterm-256color", the Konsole color configuration is disregarded. I
tweaked the /etc/profile.d/256term.sh file. After changing
   local256="$COLORTERM$XTERM_VERSION$ROXTERM_ID$KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION"
to
   local256="$COLORTERM$XTERM_VERSION$ROXTERM_ID"
the TERM remains the standard "xterm", and now I can change my Konsole colors through the configuration dialog.

I am not sure whether my workaround has undesired side-effects. I did not observe any.

I see that this file was added around F-18, bug #845583. Since Konsole does not
support the 256 colors (at least the configuration dialog does not support it), do we really need TERM=xterm-256color for Konsole?

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2014-12-23 15:04:33 UTC

I cannot reproduce, my colors change when selecting different color schemes fine.

Comment 2 Orcan Ogetbil 2014-12-24 06:01:15 UTC

Hi Rex, I think I wasn't entirely clear.

The problem is not with switching color schemes.

The problem is with altering individual colors inside a color scheme, like tuning the dark green a little lighter.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2014-12-26 16:42:35 UTC

I tested both cases both color scheme and changing individual colors (background color in particular)

Comment 4 Orcan Ogetbil 2014-12-26 22:33:46 UTC

I confirm that changing the background color works. 

However, changing the other colors, e.g. Color 5 does not work. Can you check this?

Comment 5 Orcan Ogetbil 2014-12-28 05:20:26 UTC

Here are the exact steps to reproduce the bug. 100% reproducible:

1- Open Konsole. Verify that 
    $ echo $TERM
    xterm-256color
2- Observe the blue colors of the directory names when you do
    $ ls -l /
3- Go to Settings->Edit Current Profile->Appearance Tab
4- Click on the button Edit...
5- Click on the blue box that is directly to the right of the box called Color 5.
6- Make the color lighter, to the extent that you can tell the difference. You can drag the center vertical control upwards to achieve this.
7- Click OK. Click Apply. Click OK. Click OK. All the configuration windows should be closed now.
8- Look at the terminal output. You should still have the "ls -l /" output on screen. Note that the blue color of the directories has NOT changed!
9- Edit /etc/profile.d/256term.sh file via root. Change
   local256="$COLORTERM$XTERM_VERSION$ROXTERM_ID$KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION"
to
   local256="$COLORTERM$XTERM_VERSION$ROXTERM_ID"
Save the file.
10- Open a new tab in Konsole.
11- Verify that
    $ echo $TERM
    xterm
12- Repeat steps 2-7 exactly.
13- Look at the terminal output. You should still have the "ls -l /" output on screen. The blue color of the directories have now changed to the blue you set on step 6.


I hope this clears things up :)

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