Re: xterm background colour

[applecom inbox ru]

Thomas Dickey <dickey his com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, applecom inbox ru wrote:
>
>> Midnight Commander changes xterm background colour to black on exit if run
>> from it. I think it's a bug.
>
> There are two places to look: the choice of terminal description,
> and possibly a very old version of slang.  It's more likely the
> terminal description, e.g., using something like "xterm-color",
> which is almost always incorrect.

I've written unclearly a bit. XTerm background color doesn't actually change. MC fills out on exit entire XTerm window by black solid blocks except bottom line and prompt symbols. After running 'clear' colour of all the symbols becomes normal.