Public bug reported:

It seems that if you leave a text-mode terminal alone for some time, it
will go into a power-saving mode of some sort. I don't know how to
otherwise describe it, so here are two pictures that show what I mean:

http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_0.jpg - normal text-mode terminal
http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_1.jpg - the same terminal after being left 
alone for a while, missing grey, blue and purple (note: the screen _does_ go 
fully blank after some time)

Dapper simply blanked the entire screen instead of doing this, and I
feel it's much better and less awkward that way. I actually don't know
whether this is a bug, or a feature, or a change in default settings,
but either way, I believe that this is worth looking at.

** Affects: Ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Description changed:

  It seems that if you leave a text-mode terminal alone for some time, it
  will go into a power-saving mode of some sort. I don't know how to
  otherwise describe it, so here are two pictures that show what I mean:
  
  http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_0.jpg - normal text-mode terminal
- http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_1.jpg - the same terminal after being left 
alone for a while, missing grey, blue and purple
+ http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_1.jpg - the same terminal after being left 
alone for a while, missing grey, blue and purple (note: the screen _does_ go 
fully blank after some time)
  
  Dapper simply blanked the entire screen instead of doing this, and I
  feel it's much better and less awkward that way. I actually don't know
  whether this is a bug, or a feature, or a change in default settings,
  but either way, I believe that this is worth looking at.

** Tags added: terminal

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Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70403

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