2010/3/8 Frank Lahm <franklahm at googlemail.com>: > Hi, > > I've got help so quickly the last time I tried, I'll try again, this > time with something entirely different. > > I'm using emacs in coloring mode in remote (from OS X) ssh terminal > sessions for quite some time, and from the start have been suffering > problem with emacs using some default gnome-gtk coloring scheme or > whatever which resulted in a grey background instead of the configured > white one. > > I've updrade to snv_133 a few days ago, since then it's unusable, cf: > <http://www.rsrc.de/tmp/emacs%20in%20Terminal.jpg> > Note: this is without any .emacs file in place (moved away). > > I've found one reference to this problem [1], have googled quite some > time for a solution, without success. I'm really not an expert neither > for the X side of things and friends nor for configuring emacs in all > its glory. I've started emacs -nw from truss in order to give a clue > on which config file it is consuming, but couldn't find any. It's > reading "/usr/share/lib/terminfo//x/xterm-color" of course as my TERM > is set to xterm-color, but nothing else suspicious. > > A manually compiled emacs (latest stable) shows the same bad colors. > I've of course moved away my custom .emacs file for all this tests. > > Anybody? I guess I will be asking for help at emacs at gnu.org directly > if nobody here has an idea.
Well... afair I did try this before without success, anyway: after copying /usr/share/lib/terminfo//x/xterm-color from Debian and replacing the osol version with it, everything looks as expected. Hm... Cheers, Frank
