[Tor3]

My terminal isn't configured to use any colors. It's just xterm. The only colors configured are background and foreground, and those colors various tools insist on as default are always clashing with them (and with my vision too). There are no color environment variables enabled, or anything else indicating that colors should be used, but even so colors are coming out of various command line tools lately.

[Bjartr]

If you run the script described in this post[1] you can display the colors that your terminal is configured to use. Just because you've overridden foreground and background doesn't mean you've altered the other colors xterm uses by default.

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51818&p=1

[rashkov]

I think that if you configure the rest of the colors, then the commands will use those. I’ve set my urxvt term to use the solarized theme and I don’t have any problems with viewing colorized output. I’d have to test it, but I’m reasonably sure of this.