Bug 120112

Summary:	can't turn off color man output
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joe Bayes <jbayes>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Joe Bayes 2004-04-06 03:21:25 UTC

Description of problem:
When I type 'man man', I get multicolored output. I don't like
multicolored output (though I understand that others might), and I
want to switch it off. In searching through the manpages for man,
nroff, groff, and grotty the only thing I could find that seemed like
it might turn off color is the '-c' option to nroff. But nroff is
already getting the '-c' option in /etc/man.config, and I've still got
color:

NROFF           /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-1.5k-12
groff-1.18.1-29

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 'man man'
2.
3.
  
Actual results: color output

Expected results:
Either 'nroff -c -mandoc' should be producing monochrome output, or
man's manpage should tell me how to switch off color output. 

Additional info:

gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz |/usr/bin/gtbl |/usr/bin/nroff
-c -mandoc |more

produces the same (color) output. I'm pretty sure that's what man is
doing under the hood.

Comment 1 Joe Bayes 2004-06-14 05:50:33 UTC

I'm now running Fedora Core 2, with man-1.5m2-6, and I've still got
the same problem.

Comment 2 Joe Bayes 2004-07-19 00:10:02 UTC

Putting the line:
xterm.vt100.colorBDMode:false
in my .Xdefaults seems to have turned off the worst of the color.
There's still some, but at least the annoying hard-to-read blue is gone.

Comment 3 Eido Inoue 2004-11-09 23:36:53 UTC

"-b" (or NOCOLOR in the conf file) will turn off color in the latest
rawhide (by prefixing a ".color 0" groff request to the beginning of
the troff source)