[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/1] conf: replace grey46 with bright black

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Jun 14 21:44:45 UTC 2021


On 15/6/21 1:24 am, Christian Hesse wrote:
> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> 
> This is not handled correctly in some situations. For me (with pacman
> inside tmux inside xfce4-terminal with TERM=xterm) I do not see version
> strings but huge gaps between package names. Looks like grey46 is round
> to just back, which is my background color.
> 
> Instead use bright black, which is one of the 16 colors and *should* be
> visible with any configuration. Works for me[tm] and all configurations
> I tested.

Is there a reason to use TERM=xterm and not something that supports 256
colours?

I remember discussing 16 colour terminals at the time this was
implemented and deciding they could us NoColor...

Allan


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