Bug#723721: gnome-terminal: colors are swapped

[folkert]

> > Black and white are swapped.
> > If a program (eg an ncurses application) selects black, then gnome-terminal draws with white instead.
> 
> Osamu Aoki merged this with #721489, but I'm not so sure that it's actually
> the same issue.

Unfortunately I switched to xfce so I can't test anything, but:

> Are you sure the program is selecting black, and not "the default colour"?
> The two are separate, and there are different terminal escapes to
> use them. Most terminals have white as their default foreground and black
> as their default background (e.g. xterm), but gnome-terminal has its defaults
> the other way round.

...that would explain it. But from a programming point of view it is
counter-intuitive imho.


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