Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 16 Feb 2001 00:51:14 +0000 From jeffsh@erols.com Thu Feb 15 18:51:14 2001 Return-path: Received: from 209-122-226-109.s363.apx1.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com (eden-hda7.my.local) [::ffff:209.122.226.109] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14TZ7B-0005Pz-00; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:51:13 -0600 Received: by eden-hda7.my.local (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3690815D50; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:51:07 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Sheinberg Subject: debconf: dialog: TERM variable is not being used, neither is user's xterm default colors To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.3.7 Message-Id: <20010216005107.3690815D50@eden-hda7.my.local> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:51:07 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: debconf Version: 0.2.80.17 Severity: normal Hi, I invoked dpkg-reconfigure from an xterm window like this, TERM=xterm-r6 dpkg-reconfigure debconf and up pops the screen dialog in living color. But xterm-r6 has no color definitions in its terminfo entry (you can verify this with infocmp or run dselect or capt with TERM=xterm-r6 and there are no colors). This is the first problem. The second problem is the colors that debconf actually uses in the screen dialog. My xterm has its default foreground/background colors set to black/rgb:c0/c0/c0, ie, black on an amorphous gray background. What happens is that debconf displays the descriptive text field using black/off-white colors, rather than on the expected (by me anyway) black/rgb:c0/c0/c0 colors. I think that debconf should be honoring the default colors that were originally choosen by the user when the xterm was started. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg -- System Information Debian Release: woody/testing Kernel Version: Linux eden-hda7.my.local 2.2.18 #2 Wed Feb 7 08:10:35 EST 2001 i586 unknown Versions of the packages debconf depends on: ii fileutils 4.0.37-1 GNU file management utilities. ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-7.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report