Bug#723721: gnome-terminal: colors are swapped

Osamu Aoki osamu at debian.org
Thu Jul 31 15:53:33 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:37:33AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> unmerge 723721
> severity 723721 normal
> tags 723721 + moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 at 08:58:42 +0200, folkert wrote:
> > 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.

OK.

By the way, things work normal these days.  (I use gnome)  I use
system default now.  I think it was fixed by some fix just after my report.

> Are you sure the program is selecting black, and not "the default colour"?
...

I can not tell what was really broken.  At least, current GNOME terminal
have no problem for me.

> printf '\e[1;37;40m(bright/bold white on black)\e[0m\n'
> printf '\e[37;40m(dim white on black)\e[0m\n'
> printf '\e[47;30m(black on white)\e[0m\n'
> printf '\e[1;47;30m(dark grey on white)\e[0m\n'
> printf '\e[0m(terminal default background and foreground)\e[0m\n'
> printf '\e[1m(terminal default background and bright/bold foreground)\e[0m\n'

These work nicely.

Osamu 



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