xterm-debian terminfo entry

[Alexander E. Apke]

Now that debian is going to be using a nonstandard terminfo entry
for xterms, can the default colors be setup like a normal linux console,
black background with white foreground.

I liked this when the xterm was setup this way a while back.  I
believe the reason for switching back to white background was for
compatibility sake.  Since xterm-debian is the standard terminfo entry
for debian, a black background would also be nice.

The black background is much more pleasing to the eye, especially 
with colors enabled.


Alex


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Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

[Dan Jacobowitz]

Or at least offer an xterm-cons or xterm-black-bg.  Also, could someone PLEASE 
figure out
the remaining options to make xterm behave graphically like a console? 
I can't get the combination of bold and 16 colors to work correctly.

Dan

On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Alexander E. Apke wrote:
>   Now that debian is going to be using a nonstandard terminfo entry
> for xterms, can the default colors be setup like a normal linux console,
> black background with white foreground.
> 
>   I liked this when the xterm was setup this way a while back.  I
> believe the reason for switching back to white background was for
> compatibility sake.  Since xterm-debian is the standard terminfo entry
> for debian, a black background would also be nice.
> 
>   The black background is much more pleasing to the eye, especially 
> with colors enabled.
> 
> 
>   Alex
> 
> 
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Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

[Brian Mays]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander E. Apke) wrote:

>   Now that debian is going to be using a nonstandard terminfo entry
> for xterms, can the default colors be setup like a normal linux console,
> black background with white foreground.

>   I liked this when the xterm was setup this way a while back.  I
> believe the reason for switching back to white background was for
> compatibility sake.  Since xterm-debian is the standard terminfo entry
> for debian, a black background would also be nice.

>   The black background is much more pleasing to the eye, especially
> with colors enabled.

This does not need to be done with at terminfo entry.  Use the following X
resources (in either $HOME/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources for
everybody):

XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: gray90

By the way, this also will cause rxvt windows to use reverse video.

Brian


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Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

[Alexander E. Apke]

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Brian Mays wrote:

> 
> This does not need to be done with at terminfo entry.  Use the following X
> resources (in either $HOME/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources for
> everybody):
> 
>   XTerm*background: black
>   XTerm*foreground: gray90
> 
> By the way, this also will cause rxvt windows to use reverse video.
> 

I did not want this to be set in the terminfo entry, but rather
added as the default configuration to debian's xterm.  My reasoning is
that since the terminfo entry has changed, why can't other configuration
settings.  I remember there was a complaint that the debian xterm was
straying away from the standard, and that is why the default colors were
switched back to black on white from white on black.


Alex



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Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

[LeRoy D. Cressy]

Alexander E. Apke wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Brian Mays wrote:
> 
> >
> > This does not need to be done with at terminfo entry.  Use the following X
> > resources (in either $HOME/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources for
> > everybody):
> >
> >   XTerm*background: black
> >   XTerm*foreground: gray90
> >
> > By the way, this also will cause rxvt windows to use reverse video.
> >
> 
> I did not want this to be set in the terminfo entry, but rather
> added as the default configuration to debian's xterm.  My reasoning is
> that since the terminfo entry has changed, why can't other configuration
> settings.  I remember there was a complaint that the debian xterm was
> straying away from the standard, and that is why the default colors were
> switched back to black on white from white on black.
> 
> Alex

Please, don't go changing the local setup of the users without first
asking permission to change.  I for one did not like the surprise change
in the past.  Let's try to keep all surprises down to a minimum.

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Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

[Alexander E. Apke]

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:

> Alexander E. Apke wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I did not want this to be set in the terminfo entry, but rather
> > added as the default configuration to debian's xterm.  My reasoning is
> > that since the terminfo entry has changed, why can't other configuration
> > settings.  I remember there was a complaint that the debian xterm was
> > straying away from the standard, and that is why the default colors were
> > switched back to black on white from white on black.
> 
> Please, don't go changing the local setup of the users without first
> asking permission to change.  I for one did not like the surprise change
> in the past.  Let's try to keep all surprises down to a minimum.
> 

Well, I guess the original change was to close a very
longstanding bug report.  That was hamm when it was unstable, so
normal users should not have encountered that change.

I propose xbase allowing people to choose between black or white
background during postinst or maybe in some kind of xbaseconfig script.

I know the plan for X is to break up xbase into many smaller
pieces, so the configuration option could be available in the future xterm
package.

Alex



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Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

[Yann Dirson]

Alexander E. Apke writes:
 >  I propose xbase allowing people to choose between black or white
 > background during postinst or maybe in some kind of xbaseconfig script.

I think it's not necessary.  I did not test, but the following (or a
similar setting) should work well and please most people:


# ln -s xterm /usr/bin/X11/xterm-black
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