Using the color 30 or 37 (black or white foreground) without setting the background, or similarly, 40 or 47 (black or white background) without setting the foreground is a pretty bad idea, since, without knowing the terminal's color scheme (which is often white on black, or black on white), it might easily result in unreadable text.
I don't see why links would be underlined, so I assume that 4 is also a bug. One possible explanation would be that it wanted to be 40 instead (white text on black background), it's at least readable, although potentially ugly, still doesn't explain that 5, and also the order of the three numbers is really weird then. My best guess is that that 4 is meant to be 48 (or even better, 38), to use extended colors. In that case 5 is an additional parameter to that (that is, no blinking), and 37 is yet another additional parameter (the color index from the 256-color palette), resulting in a cyan-ish color. This guess is also supported by the presence of "DIR 38;5;5" and "EXEC 38;5;202" in the file, which mean to use color index 5 (magenta) or 202 (bright red) for the foreground. Note, however, that the use of such extended colors is also buggy, since they are under TERM declarations that don't claim to support 256 colors. "38;5;xx" and "48;5;xx" should only be allowed under sections of "TERM whatever-256color". "DIR 38;5;5" could simply be replaced by "DIR 35", it's the same color, but terminals that don't support 256 colors cannot be expected to understand the long format. For "EXEC 38;5;202" the best (simplest) is probably to find a color from the legacy 8-color palette. Or reorganize the entire file so that terminals with 256-color support have different values. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752352 Title: symbolic links are blinking with byobu Status in byobu: New Status in byobu package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Test Case 1. Run byobu 2. ln -s . test_symlink 3. ls -d test_symlink Actual result test_symlink is blinking. Expected result test_symlink is not blinking with the default settings applied. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.27.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Feb 28 16:02:01 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-03 (1638 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130902) ProcEnviron: TERM=screen-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-26 (33 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/byobu/+bug/1752352/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
