dr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Mar 9

OK, WTF is going on with #xfce #terminal ?

I've been noticing a lot of files with blank names showing up recently. None of the usual tricks to find "blank named files" worked.

But when I do

ls -li

to show the inode number and then

find . -inum <inode number>

I see that there IS a filename. Buh?

So I opened up #xterm and looked at the same thing. No, the files *do* have names. XFCE IS HIDING THEM

Hiding them how? Well, I can highlight the text and it seems to be a foreground character there. What is it?

If I paste that highlight into an editor, the text is visible.

What the actual fuck?

#linux

Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧

Most of the examples I can find are ~ files. I also found a .old file.

Does #xfce think they are *helping* by half-hiding "backup" files?

Mar 9 at 3:47pmWeb
Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Mar 9

aha, it's

ls --color=auto

hiding them somehow

in fact, a little more investigation shows that it's just the #SolarizedDark terminal color preset that's hiding them

#linux

Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Mar 9

changing one of the palette colors for Solarized Dark (inside the #xfce terminal app) fixed it

good lord, why

#linux

Show threadMark StosbergMar 9
@davidr Funny, I also ran to a disappearing text problem today with a website theme and it was the same root cause of a theme that set the foreground and background colors the same.
Show threaddr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧Mar 9
@markstos you'd think they'd check that...