Weird discoloration with certain values of ${TERM}

[djsigmann]

I use alacritty as my terminal emulator (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) and use the alacritty-direct terminfo entry as described in extras/alacritty.info.

When I run pacseek it takes several seconds to load and then displays the interface with a very strange, dulled look:
$ pacseek

It loads near-instantly and appears normal if I change the Value of $TERM:
$ TERM=xterm-direct pacseek

If I replace the xterm-direct terminfo entry with the alacritty-direct entry:
$ infocmp alacritty-direct | perl -np -e "s/alacritty/xterm/g;" | sudo tic -x -

and then run for a second time:
$ TERM=xterm-direct pacseek

Pacseek works just as it should.

And if I do the opposite and replace the alacritty-direct terminfo entry with the xterm-direct entry it still behaves oddly.
In fact, from my testing, it seems that any value for $TERM is alright as long as it doesn't include -direct unless it is xterm-direct; the content of the relevant terminfo entry seems to be irrelevant.

I have managed to reproduce this behaviour in several terminal emulators:

• Alacritty
• St
• Xterm

I suspect this may be some sort of bug, perhaps 'xterm-direct' was hard coded somewhere.

[moson-mo]

That slow loading glitch was corrected in tcell it seems. gdamore/tcell@7557ac2
Updating dependencies fixes that. I'll have to see if I file a new release for this.

Not sure what the issue with those colors is though.
It probably needs a definition for alacritty-direct similar to the xterm one.
F.e.: https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/blob/main/terminfo/x/xterm/direct.go

[moson-mo]

Fixed for alacritty-direct.
Now there seems to be some general issue of handling the -direct term variants with terminfo atm.
gdamore/tcell#585 (comment)