On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:24:52PM -0500, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:17:17AM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > One of the reasons I prefer dark on light is the excessive use of blue > > in ls output (which I tend to use a lot). > > So... change it. LS_COLORS controls what colors ls use.
Or alias ls to 'ls -p'/change $LS_OPTIONS from '--color=auto' to '-p' in ~/.bashrc. It gives you most (all?) of the same information as the color-coding while leaving the ls output the same color as your normal text. > > If I'm not mistaken eye doctors will generally > > advise anyone with problems reading text to use a light-on-dark scheme > > because of the better contrast. > > And I'm betting most aren't taking into account the projective nature of > monitors and are just defaulting to the same "it's more like paper" line of > reasoning. Actually, he said eye doctors recommend light-on-dark to those with problems, which is not "more like paper"... -- I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]