Bug 434659 - On black background, an inverse-video at sign doesn't show
Summary: On black background, an inverse-video at sign doesn't show
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Terminal
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-24 01:49 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2008-04-09 03:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-09 03:53:08 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2008-02-24 01:49:47 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm addicted to crawl http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref, a roguelike
game. As currently Gnome is broken beyond usage, I'm using XFCE. And in Terminal
the at sign representing the character doesn't show. In an xterm or
gnome-terminal it works fine.

crawl uses a black background, and uses curses.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Terminal-0.2.8-3.fc9.i386
ncurses-libs-5.6-15.20080112.fc9.i386 (crawl uses ncursesw)


How reproducible:
Always

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Expected results:


Additional info:
Should I attach the executable, or the source tarball, for the game?

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2008-02-24 04:00:11 UTC
Interesting, as both Terminal and gnome-terminal use the 'vte' package for their
backends. 

You have a black background, what is your cusor color set to? Text color?
If you change the preferences->advanced-> $TERM from 'xterm' to 'vt100' does it
work?



Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2008-02-24 16:18:03 UTC
Setting it to vt100 and resetting the Terminal gives an at-sign. Cursor and text
are black, background white.

I just tried side by side with gnome-terminal, there it works

Comment 3 Horst H. von Brand 2008-02-24 16:20:21 UTC
Sorry, no. I did X in the game (shows an overview of the dungeon level), there
the at sign shows, going back to the "normal" view and the at is gone again.
Shows just as a black space (on black).

Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2008-03-02 02:12:41 UTC
I'm really not sure how to track this down further... 

Would you be willing to file an upstream bug? 
Or if you prefer I can file one for you? 

Comment 5 Horst H. von Brand 2008-03-05 21:41:01 UTC
Sorry, I was away (from this bug).

Where should I file?


Comment 6 Kevin Fenzi 2008-03-06 00:40:54 UTC
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ 

Or if you don't want to deal with another account there I can file it... 
Just let me know if you would like me to do so. 


Comment 7 Horst H. von Brand 2008-03-06 20:13:38 UTC
Reported as http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3925.

Strangely, today (no changes in Terminal, ncurses-libs!) the game shows as black
characters (only, no colors for potions or others!) on white. I hacked together
one of the ncurses examples to compile, that one I attached upstream.

Comment 8 Kevin Fenzi 2008-03-06 21:06:55 UTC
Shall we keep this open as a reminder in case upstream has a patch we need to
apply? Or go ahead and close it now?

I added myself to CC on the upstream bug. 

If there is anything further I can do, please let me know. 

Comment 9 Horst H. von Brand 2008-03-07 12:02:06 UTC
I'm just the bug reporter here, whoever is the owner of the package should make
that call.

Thanks!

Comment 10 Kevin Fenzi 2008-04-09 03:53:08 UTC
Well, since I am CC'ed on the upstream bug I should be able to see when/if there
is activity on it, so I will go ahead and close this UPSTREAM. 
Feel free to reopen or file a new bug if you spot anything further. 


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