xterm background colour

[applecom at inbox.ru]

Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:

> 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.

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.