xterm background colour

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, applecom at 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.

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