On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch. > I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and > irritating) has happened to slrn. All the colours have been softened; > it's as if everything has been replaced with pastels. Even white text > on a black background has faded - it's now light gray text on a dark > gray background. When I go to post or reply to a message, vim comes > up and the screen snaps back to a crisp black and white, only to revert > to washed-out colours when I return to slrn. Everything else (e.g. > console windows) is OK - it's just slrn which is affected. > > My .slrnrc is unchanged. What has happened to my colours? And more > importantly, how do I get them back to where they were? >
What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three wildly different code bases) -dsr-
