Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-12 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
On 2014-03-07 Paul E Condon wrote: > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on > the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black > background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and i

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote: > > how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it ^^^ > Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I can

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in > > Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already > > reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', i

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140311_185125, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote: > > In the meantime, I'll > > use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important > > details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude. > > Or even aptitude at the CLI? I had

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in > Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already > reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to > as 'visual'. I'm sure it will b

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote: > In the meantime, I'll > use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important > details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude. Or even aptitude at the CLI? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode [Solved]

2014-03-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140311_135115, Klaus wrote: > On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote: > > When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only > > comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of > > this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal > > wo

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-11 Thread Klaus
On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote: > When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only > comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of > this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal > works. There is a short explanation in the

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140310_35, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past > > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on > > the text display. Now all I get is a whit

Re: A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on > the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black > background. I get this i

A question about Aptitude interactive mode

2014-03-07 Thread Paul E Condon
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and in Xfce terminal. Both terminal emulators are