On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:31 PM, GNU bug Tracking System
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Your bug report
#7943: 23.1; white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Warren Harris <warrenharris@google.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:30:47 +0200
Subject: Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
> From: Warren Harris <warrenharris@google.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:46:57 -0800
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 7943@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> All I can say is the current behavior is quite annoying when more than 8
> colors are available. Many colors have very low contrast against the grey90
> background
But that's the most white color that your terminal can produce.
xterm.el doesn't _tell_ the terminal what color to produce for
"white", it only _documents_ (sort of) what that color is, in terms of
RGB components.
> and there's no way I can see to set the background to brightwhite.
I don't think you can, not for the background. But I'm not an expert
on xterm.
> I guess I can try and hack my xterm.el
I don't see how you can, but let us know if you find a way.
I'm closing this bug. Feel free to reopen if you find a way of making
your white "whiter".
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From: warrenharris@google.com (Warren Harris)
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:58:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 23.1; white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
I am running emacs in an Apple Terminal window while ssh'd to a Linux Ubuntu 10.04.1 system. My TERM is set to xterm-color. (Note that the Apple Terminal app only supports 8 colors.) All the colors are quite dingy looking, but in particular the background is color #e5e5e5 which on my computer is fairly dark and makes the text hard to read (particularly cyan or green text).
Here's what list-colors-display shows:
black black #000000
red red #cd0000
green green #00cd00
yellow yellow #cdcd00
blue blue #0000ee
magenta magenta #cd00cd
cyan cyan #00cdcd
white white #e5e5e5
Note that others on the emacs mailing list have been able to reproduce this problem (even on a Windows system). See the thread "white is #e5e5e5" started Jan 23, 2011.
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
of 2010-11-23 on yellow, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: C
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: C
value of $LC_NUMERIC: C
value of $LC_TIME: C
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Shell
Minor modes in effect:
csv-field-index-mode: t
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
SPC p u s h RET ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c C-x 3 ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC
[ 1 7 ~ C-x C-b C-x o C-n C-n f C-x o C-c C-c C-c C-c
C-r 1 6 7 7 SPC t p s C-r C-a C-n C-@ ESC > C-p C-p
C-p C-a ESC w C-x o C-y C-x C-x C-g C-x e C-g C-x (
ESC d C-d C-d ESC C-f ESC C-b ESC f C-k C-n C-a C-x
) C-u 8 8 8 8 C-x e C-x C-s ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC v ESC v
ESC v ESC v C-l C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p
C-p C-@ C-v C-x 1 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
ESC w C-x C-f ~ / s t a t . t x t RET C-y ESC v C-v
ESC v ESC v C-x C-s ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC [ 1 7 ~ ESC [ 1
5 ~ ESC > ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p
ESC p ESC n RET ESC v C-l C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p
C-p C-@ ESC > C-p C-p ESC w C-x C-f ESC DEL ESC DEL
ESC DEL ESC DEL s t TAB a t 2 . t x t RET C-y ESC y
C-x C-s ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC v ESC v ESC x r e o DEL p o
r t SPC e m a TAB RET
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