ncurses box-lines wrong, directories not colored
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My Slackware installation has non-colored directories in tty screens and also ncurses box-draw characters wrong. The computer I'm using (HP DC7800 with Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 2.83GHz) is dual-booting Slackware version 14.2 on /dev/sda1 and Slackware -current on /dev/sda2. I used Gparted to split the hard drive partition, retaining 14.2 on one, then I full-installed Slackware -current in May 2021, and just a few days ago installed the latest version overwriting the older one. I always use the default selections for character choices). Both -current versions have had the same two problems which happen after first booting the computer:
1) The tty files/directories start as white characters but will become colorized as soon as I run startx (I see them change when pressing Enter, just before the GUI starts). After logging out of X, they remain colored until the next bootup.
2) The ncurses box-lines in pkgtool and xwmconfig are hi-ascii letters, not box-draw. I have seen the box-drawing characters eventually right themselves too but haven't found what does it.
Then both problems can happen all over again on the next boot. I haven't seen others mention this and I've never seen it before. Any ideas?
1) The tty files/directories start as white characters but will become colorized as soon as I run startx (I see them change when pressing Enter, just before the GUI starts). After logging out of X, they remain colored until the next bootup.
2) The ncurses box-lines in pkgtool and xwmconfig are hi-ascii letters, not box-draw. I have seen the box-drawing characters eventually right themselves too but haven't found what does it.
Then both problems can happen all over again on the next boot. I haven't seen others mention this and I've never seen it before. Any ideas?