On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
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)
Good call, sir! Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch,
the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --launch
TerminalEmulator) had changed to gnome-terminal. A bit of web searching
came up with the exo-preferred-application command, which let me
re-configure the default terminal emulator to Xfce Terminal. All is
well again. Thanks!
(Do the Gnome people like pastels?)
After further digging, I noticed that my default manager was set to
gdm3, as opposed to the lightdm on my desktop box, which is also running
stretch.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Now my laptop feels much more familiar, and slrn is still crisp and clear.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
