From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 2501@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - fonts are unreadable
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:01:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prh3ps2x.fsf_-_@jondo.cante.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902271822.n1RIMBBh018222@rodan.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:11 -0800 (PST)")
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> > On a white mrxt black on white terminal[1], the font-lock colors are
> > unreadable. See attached picture.
> >
> > $ tput colors
> > 8
> >
> > [1] Debian; mrxvt 0.5.3-2 terminal
> > http://packages.debian.org/mrxvt
>
> It appears that emacs thinks that you have dark background. What did
> you set TERM to?
I started mrxvt from xterm:
$ xterm
$ echo $TERM
xterm
$ mrxvt &
mrxvt$ echo $TERM
rxvt
<terminal is open in black on white>
> This looks like it is an rxvt derivative, so the value of the COLORFGBG
> environment variable should help emacs realize what is the default
> background.
mrxvt$ COLORFGBG=1 emacs -Q -nw
=> Same color results as in previously attached picture
Jari
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-27 17:25 bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - font's are unreadable Jari Aalto
2009-02-27 18:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-02-27 20:01 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2009-02-27 20:14 ` bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - fonts " Dan Nicolaescu
2009-02-27 22:03 ` Jari Aalto
2016-01-14 4:58 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-14 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-16 4:17 ` Andrew Hyatt
2009-02-27 20:09 ` bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - font's " Jari Aalto
2022-02-13 10:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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