Description of problem: it appears all slang apps have a problem displaying black under X. Black backgrounds and trim appears to be washed out and overly-bright. Didn't happen on previous RH releases. slrn and ntsysv exhibit the behavior, but it's more clear in something like slrn configured with white text on a completely black background. My terminals are also configured for white on black and do not have this problem in terminal mode. It only appears to be apps based on slang. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): slang-2.1.2-2.fc8 How reproducible: infinitely Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Slang doesn't use X so this is likely a terminal emulator problem. In which terminal emulator is this happening? Has xterm the same problem?
Dammit, good point. Tried it in an xterm and it did not exhibit the behavior. Must be a problem with gnome-terminal and slang apps.
Can you run under script(1) and attach output here?
I'm not sure what you hope that will accomplish. The problem is that gnome-terminal, if set to have a background color of black, doesn't display slang apps properly. Any solid black is an extra bright area that's hard to see. Running the same app in xterm works fine. I don't know of a good example other than something like slrn. ntsysv is mostly blue with a black border that you *can* see it in, but it's not as obvious since the black area isn't large. slrn seems to do something hokey and 'script -c slrn slrn.out' just gives me some non-slang stdout anyway. I'm sure you can replicate this by setting up slrn. Attached is the set of colors I use in my .slrnrc (just replace whatever it creates by default with this and run it again). Try in both a gnome-terminal and in an xterm and you should see what I mean. Make sure and set the background in both the gnome-terminal and the xterm to black *first*, though. (Tried to 'create attachment' instead of pasting, but I got a Server Busy message of some kind.) %--------------------------------------------------------------------------- % Colors %--------------------------------------------------------------------------- %color header_number "red" "white" %color header_name "red" "white" %color normal black white %color error red white %color status yellow blue %color group blue white %color article blue white %color cursor brightgreen white %color author magenta white %color subject black white %color headers brightcyan white %color menu yellow blue %color menu_press blue yellow %color tree red white %color quotes red white %color thread_number blue white %color high_score red white %color signature red white %color description blue white %color tilde red white color header_number green black color normal white black color error red black color status yellow blue color group yellow black color article yellow black color cursor brightgreen black color author yellow black color subject white black color headers brightcyan black color menu yellow blue color menu_press blue yellow color tree green black color quotes white black color thread_number yellow black color high_score yellow black color signature white black color description green black color tilde green black color header_name green black %----------------------------------------------------- % Monochrome attributes for monochrom terminals %----------------------------------------------------- mono normal none mono header_number none mono error blink bold mono status reverse mono group bold mono article none mono cursor bold reverse mono author none mono subject none mono headers bold mono menu reverse mono menu_press none mono tree bold mono quotes underline mono thread_number bold mono high_score bold mono signature none mono description none
Can you attach a screenshot of xterm and g-t then?
Created attachment 290763 [details] Xterm screen shot of slrn
Created attachment 290764 [details] gnome-terminal screenshot running slrn
Ah, I see what you mean. This is the new default Tango color scheme. Can you confirm that changing the color scheme to something classic fixes it? I'm not a huge fan of the washed out colors, but sometimes I appreciate the lack of crispiness in the colors.
Ah, I see. Yeah, changed it to xterm and it fixed it. I didn't think it was something like that because I normally just set my background color to black in the terminal and it's never just changed like that on me by running an app. I guess I see the point, but it's unusable to me in *that* configuration. I'd have to change the app settings at least some to make that work, but I'm happier with it back to normal. Okay, close bug. Thanks.
I've seen the overly-bright issue with some monitors. But on my current screen for example it looks very good. As I said, I'm not a huge fan, but changing the defaults again can just add more harm at this point.