When you exit vim, less, man, and possibly other applications the background color is set to black regardless of the setting in the shortcut that launches the console. The clear command returns the background to the correct color. This problem was first reported in Oct 2005 but was incorrectly attributed to settings in the PS1 environment variable, which are not the cause of the problem.
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