> Debian Bug report logs - #241717 > xterm: various colour problems (mouse cursor color, text colours) ... >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:10:52 +0200 >From: Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... >This is wrong. If you don't believe me please ask somebody who knows more >about X. The mouse cursor is application controllable and apps usually >make ample use of that. xterm sets it to the insert cursor (or whatever is >configured for xterm), sets the colours etc. and even has escape codes to >control this appearance.
hmm - no: you're confusing the mouse pointer and the text cursor. Let's settle on using the terminology in the xterm manpage. >Nevertheless, the mousecursor is normally black-on-white (or >black-on-gray90 if you like). Debian reverses the default colours for the >text but leaves the mouse cursor colours black-on-white (or gray90) while >correct colours are white-on-black (or gray90). still confused. >You can see the correct behaviour and correct appearance by starting xterm >without te debian colours (white bg), or another terminal emulator such as >rxvt-xpm or Eterm or pterm or just about anything else (I haven't found >any emulator that does it wrong with the exception of rxvt-unicode, which >is an old version which has been corrected upstream). There aren't any old versions of rxvt-unicode. >> Perhaps you could put a window dump of xterm up on the web somewhere so >> we could have a look at this? >> >> What you're describing doesn't sound like Debian's defaults at all. > >Here is an example: > >http://data.plan9.de/x.png The given picture only shows an outline for the text cursor, corresponding to when focus is lost. >The lower right terminal contains a much lighter blue (blue is often used >as a background colour). The other terminals show more-or-less standard >vt100 colours, the xterm shows a much more difficult-to-read combination >(for me). The program used is alsamixer, but many other programs use this >bg colour by default (mutt, irssi, epic4 I think etc..) vt100's don't do colors. There are no standard vt100 colors. See http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html for relevant discussion of Dodger blue. >In addition, this colour change *is* a bug as the manpage documents the >colours clearly, but the displayed colours are not in according to the >manpage. I already updated the manpage (see changelog) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net