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Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

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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-

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Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-18 19:50 +0200
  Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-18 20:10 +0200
    Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-19 00:10 +0200
      Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-19 02:30 +0200
        Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-20 03:20 +0200
        Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 00:10 +0200

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