Re: black & white

[Tobias Boege]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, folkert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason certain terminal programs (line gnome terminal) swap
> black and white. So if one uses the ncurses COLOR_BLACK for background
> and COLOR_WHITE for foreground you get actually the reverse.
> Unfortunately this behaviour is not consistent: COLOR_GREEN on
> COLOR_BLACK does give exactly that. As you can imagine, combining these
> colorpairs give less than ideal results (e.g. your program looking as if
> it does not completely fill the background).
> 
> Is there a workaround for this problem?
> I tried init_color(COLOR_BLACK, 0, 0, 0); init_color(COLOR_WHITE, 999,
> 999, 999); but that did not help.
> 

I don't know but maybe assume_default_colors(3X) can help you? In the NOTES
section, the problem mentioned with `ded' sounds similar (but not identic I
guess).

Regards,
Tobi

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