From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 Description of problem: When launching programs from a gnome-terminal after running/logging in using su - the programs come up without any color attributes. mc gives the below error in gnome-terminal. # mc subshell.c: couldn't open master side of pty pty_open_master: No such file or directory Mutt does not display errors but does come up without color. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mc-4.6.0-16 gnome-terminal-2.6.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open gnome-terminal 2. su - to root env 3. Launch mc or mutt Actual Results: When launching mc or mutt from an su - terminal. It comes up in black and white. Expected Results: mc and mutt to be in color within the su - environment Additional info: This does not happen if su w/o the - is given for logging into root or does it happen as a regular user. As a comparative program. setup comes up in color within an su - environment.
I just tried to su- after updating to the latest version of gnome-terminal. The colors for mc and mutt are back again. Bug closed