Re: menuconfig doesn't reset terminal colors correctly

[Richard Leitner <dev@g0hl1n.net>]

Hi,
any updates on this?

On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:35:50 +0100
Richard Leitner <dev@g0hl1n.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> I just noticed that "make menuconfig" doesn't reset the terminal
> colors correctly. I'm running a XFCE Terminal with "xterm" emulation
> setting and configured with black on white. After "make menuconfig"
> exits all terminal output is white on black.
> 
> I've added fprintf's with the ANSI reset code for stdout and stderr
> to the mconf.c:handle_exit:
> 
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
> @@ -969,6 +969,10 @@ static int handle_exit(void)
>  
>  	end_dialog(saved_x, saved_y);
>  
> +	/* reset terminal */
> +	fprintf(stdout, "\033[0m");
> +	fprintf(stderr, "\033[0m");
> +
>  	switch (res) {
>  	case 0:
>  		if (conf_write(filename)) {
> 
> 
> Basically this works for my tests, but I'm not sure if this is a
> desired solution... Any comments? Should I prepare a patch for that
> or is this approach completely wrong?
> 
> thanks & regards,
> Richard