man used to show colours in the past. After upgrading a lot of packages (xfree -> xorg being the most important upgrade), man doesn't show colours anymore. Re-emerging man doesn't do a thing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man ebuild 2. 3. Actual Results: The manpage is shown in black and white. Expected Results: The manpage is shown in colour. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 23 2005, 15:08:42)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync1.ro.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apm avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode faac faad fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd geoip gif gphoto2 gpm gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib imlib2 jikes jpeg lcms libcaca libwww lzo mad matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 ogg oggvorbis opengl pam png postgres python quicktime readline rtc ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xchatdccserver xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 57003 [details] man_no_colour.png picture showing a black and white man page
Hmm, sure you didn't mess up your config? man never showed colours by default.
Well, I'm pretty sure it showed colours here... what config files exactly are you talking about? As I said I updated a lot of packages and by the time I realized this it was already too late to try and find out which package did this... I suspect xorg-x11 though.
Also, the xterm colours are slightly changed (if my eyes don't deceive me). They are easier on the eyes. This may be related.
Never had colors by default here either.
Man... I really must be dreaming things then since I _definately_ remember seeing colours. :) If there is no default colour output for man, is it possible to make it display colours then? Some config option? If there is then maybe it got reset in my case.
ive never seen color in manpages either ... looking at /etc/man.conf, the only thing it mentions is removing '-c' from the *ROFF variables after doing that, `man grotty` shows green/red colors going to chalk this up to misconfiguration
Well, just to show you guys that I'm not the only one who had coloured man page output: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-46598-highlight-coloured+pages.html I definately think it was related to the xorg-x11 upgrade. Previously I used xfree and kept using it for a long time, even after it was removed from portage. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, since this doesn't seem to be a bug but more like a different configuration.
can you confirm that playing around with the *ROFF vars in man.conf helps at all ?
Removing -c from NROFF doesn't do a thing. Also, I found _some_ colour in the man pages... of course it's not like before... just a little blue.
Created attachment 57358 [details] some_colour.png To see these just "man groff" and "man grops"
right ... that's the most color i've ever seen in a manpage :)
If you want a colored man page, then: # emerge most $ export PAGER=most $ man bash Gentoo used to have most set as the default pager, but that was in 1.0_rcX days.
Thank you for the info but that's not what I had before. I didn't have most set as the pager. It was less. You can clearly differentiate the two and I would've remembered... also, the colours were different.
My first Gentoo installation was version 1.4
and i've been using the same install since around Gentoo 1.2 and ive never seen colors :) so i wonder where the config setting lays ...
I ask myself that same question, especially since the coloured output was quite pretty and easier to read IMO. If anyone has any ideas then please post them.
