bug#7943: 23.1; white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window

[Warren Harris]

I am running emacs in an Apple Terminal window while ssh'd to a Linux Ubuntu 
10.04.1 system. My TERM is set to xterm-color. (Note that the Apple Terminal 
app only supports 8 colors.) All the colors are quite dingy looking, but in 
particular the background is color #e5e5e5 which on my computer is fairly dark 
and makes the text hard to read (particularly cyan or green text). 

Here's what list-colors-display shows:

black                  black                                                    
             #000000
red                    red                                                      
             #cd0000
green                  green                                                    
             #00cd00
yellow                 yellow                                                   
             #cdcd00
blue                   blue                                                     
             #0000ee
magenta                magenta                                                  
             #cd00cd
cyan                   cyan                                                     
             #00cdcd
white                  white                                                    
             #e5e5e5

Note that others on the emacs mailing list have been able to reproduce this 
problem (even on a Windows system). See the thread "white is #e5e5e5" started 
Jan 23, 2011.
                                                                           


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-11-23 on yellow, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' 
'--host=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
 '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 
'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN 
-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: C
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: C
  value of $LC_TIME: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  csv-field-index-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC p u s h RET ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c C-x 3 ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC 
[ 1 7 ~ C-x C-b C-x o C-n C-n f C-x o C-c C-c C-c C-c 
C-r 1 6 7 7 SPC t p s C-r C-a C-n C-@ ESC > C-p C-p 
C-p C-a ESC w C-x o C-y C-x C-x C-g C-x e C-g C-x ( 
ESC d C-d C-d ESC C-f ESC C-b ESC f C-k C-n C-a C-x 
) C-u 8 8 8 8 C-x e C-x C-s ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC v ESC v 
ESC v ESC v C-l C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-@ C-v C-x 1 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
ESC w C-x C-f ~ / s t a t . t x t RET C-y ESC v C-v 
ESC v ESC v C-x C-s ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC [ 1 7 ~ ESC [ 1 
5 ~ ESC > ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p ESC p 
ESC p ESC n RET ESC v C-l C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-@ ESC > C-p C-p ESC w C-x C-f ESC DEL ESC DEL 
ESC DEL ESC DEL s t TAB a t 2 . t x t RET C-y ESC y 
C-x C-s ESC [ 1 5 ~ ESC v ESC v ESC x r e o DEL p o 
r t SPC e m a TAB RET

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