# Julia and xterm Issue with Text Coloring
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [October 27, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865 "2018-10-27T15:41:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@oliver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oliver)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/1 "2018-10-27T15:41:10Z")
I’m having an issue with text coloring in only one aspect:
This is the same using `Pkg.status("Xyz")` from the standard Julia prompt.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/2 "2018-10-27T15:53:40Z")
Have you tried other terminals? Julia works fine for me in `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal`, with and without `tmux`.
Also, sharing your xterm settings could make this easier to reproduce.
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### Author:  [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/3 "2018-10-27T15:59:26Z")
I’d suggest using a not broken colorscheme (i.e. one that has a properly set “light black” color).
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### Author:  [@oliver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oliver)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/4 "2018-10-27T16:08:22Z")
Well, there is no “light black” it must be supposed to be “light grey”? These colors are not broken outside of Julia.
Also a `.Xdefaults` file for this installation has not been created, so assuming that there are default settings only which I’m not accustomed to generating. Here is `apres XTerm xterm`
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### Author:  [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/5 "2018-10-27T17:07:22Z")
> [@oliver](#):
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> Well, there is no “light black” it must be supposed to be “light grey”?
Well, that color is called differently in different places (Julia calls it `:light_black` in `printstyled`) , so … probably?
> [@oliver](#):
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> These colors are not broken outside of Julia.
Sure they are – Julia just uses your terminal’s default colorscheme. Check e.g. what
```bash
for (( i = 30; i < 38; i++ )); do echo -e "\033[0;"$i"m Normal: (0;$i); \033[1;"$i"m Light: (1;$i)"; done
```
returns; ideally, all colors should be legible:
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### Author:  [@oliver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oliver)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/7 "2018-10-27T17:25:30Z")
This has to do with the selection of the text being washed out by a light background. I don’t know what you mean by broken colors? This is not an issue in any other terminal programs. I simply need to change how Julia presents the text for `update`.
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### Author:  [@oliver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oliver)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/8 "2018-10-27T17:30:15Z")
The fix is actually just:
`> julia --color=no`
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### Author:  [@oliver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oliver)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/9 "2018-10-27T17:41:10Z")
It would be nice not to necessarily have to turn all the colors off just to check `Pkg.status()`.
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### Author:  [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/10 "2018-10-27T18:19:45Z")
Compare
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As I said before, this is just a question of your terminal style.
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### Author:  [@oliver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oliver)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-xterm-issue-with-text-coloring/16865/12 "2018-10-31T02:23:11Z")
To be certain this issue is not resolved by changing my OSs system defaults.
There is this: [https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/REPL/#Customizing-Colors-1](https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/REPL/#Customizing-Colors-1)