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