A very minor problem I've just noticed with Trixie/Wayland.
cal displays the calendar for this month but, unlike previous versions of the OS, it doesn't highlight today's date.
Is there a way of getting that to work? I'm guessing it's supposed to use inverse video, because xterm doesn't allocate any extra colors above black and white.
This is in an xterm. I havein my ~/.Xdefaults (loaded by xrdb in ~/.config/labwc/autostart). It doesn't work under xterm -fg white -bg black either.
ncal does highlight today... which is fine if you want your calendars rotated 90 degrees.
I've installed ccal but that looks awful!
Incidentally, I notice there was a thread on cal in 2025. cal is installed by default (it's in the ncal package).
ETA: Puttingin my bash startup script fixes it.
cal displays the calendar for this month but, unlike previous versions of the OS, it doesn't highlight today's date.
Is there a way of getting that to work? I'm guessing it's supposed to use inverse video, because xterm doesn't allocate any extra colors above black and white.
This is in an xterm. I have
Code:
xterm*background: whitexterm*foreground: blackncal does highlight today... which is fine if you want your calendars rotated 90 degrees.
I've installed ccal but that looks awful!
Incidentally, I notice there was a thread on cal in 2025. cal is installed by default (it's in the ncal package).
ETA: Putting
Code:
alias cal='ncal -b'Statistics: Posted by BMardle — Thu Jul 16, 2026 9:31 am
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