Re: Some xterm-256color face colors too bright?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: stktrc <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:24:53 +0200
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Just to make sure it's not the color translation that causes this in
> > some way: if you start two Emacs sessions side by side, one windowed,
> > the other in xterm, and in each one say "M-x list-colors-display RET",
> > is there an xterm color that looks like RosyBrown, more than the color
> > mapped to it by default?
> 
> Terminal Emacs' list-colors-display doesn't give the same names as
> window Emacs: it has black, red etc..., color 16, color-17, ...,
> color-255.  So the color RosyBrown can't be identified there, as far
> as I can tell.

You can see to what color xterm maps RosyBrown by evaluating this
expression:

   (tty-color-desc "RosyBrown")

> But I used customize-face to set a terminal Emacs face background to
> RosyBrown and compare that with the window Emacs list-colors-display's
> RosyBrown.  They seem to be the same color.

This is expected.  So it looks like the problem is indeed in the font
used by xterm and not in the color translation.