From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregor Zattler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:27:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20141107152707.GD22696@boo.workgroup> References: <87a944cm3x.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <20141107135721.GA22696@boo.workgroup> <83fvdvrtw0.fsf@gnu.org> <20141107144707.GB22696@boo.workgroup> <83bnojrqws.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415374111 27795 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2014 15:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:28:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 16:28:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XmlSc-0003fK-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:28:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmlSb-0008Sb-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:28:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmlST-0008RZ-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:28:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmlSN-00071q-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:28:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:50182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmlSN-00071c-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from boo.workgroup ([87.185.183.152]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MELdk-1XoxKE1KWm-00FVA4 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:28:10 +0100 Original-Received: from grfz by boo.workgroup with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1XmlRp-0000GB-ET; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:27:37 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83bnojrqws.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pGQPEZ3F5q8s1wAVDv8sSPHjI15CTo7EmMnkExb/Y0frXD6/a20 ylHSozwNP+T8dfhv9yuuePIBt1bqGX9F8YSNLEbyou2JeGkzY/lv4JwdUbNefjinM5+9srZ kax48I40EX6ZXD+eGonCm/qzkUsfNyYVXDgf9N5ro24hYX4c0JaL67ZR/iMe+jJXhQZxPZg uznQS3hGogVUt+f9KfD+A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176529 Archived-At: Hi Eli, emacs developers, * Eli Zaretskii [07. Nov. 2014]: > The way an X-based terminal emulator converts color specifications to > X colors is not 100% deterministic, and depends both on your X setup > and system-wide customizations. > [...] > Your #909090 color (the background color) is too bright, AFAICS. What > I see is significantly darker, which is why the text is readable in my > case. > > I don't know enough about X colors to tell why the difference. Thanks for looking into this. I found xgamma directives in my .xsession, but I removed them and restarted X and it looks the same. This is an up to date debian/testing system with no files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d . There is only configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf regarding font paths and input devices. Ciao, Gre--who-wonders-and-is-clueless--gor