Bug#305398: gnome-terminal and ls -color = asumed backgound is black

Thomas Dickey Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, 305398-quiet@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 05:52:13 -0400


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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:30:15PM +0200, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 2.8.2-2
> Severity: minor
>=20
> Hello,
> I have seen some problems with the default theme and colour set.
>=20
> The last one I've seen is the way colours are displayed when issuing the
> ls -color command in /dev.

actually that's not a bug in gnome-terminal, but a design defect in the
ls program.  It hardcodes a table of escape sequences to match against
the $TERM variable (rather than using the terminfo information).

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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