On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:05:31AM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:17:38PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Aside: One could perhaps extend this discussion to gui interfaces
in general. With notable exceptions (enlightenment comes to mind),
many/most things in gui environments have white bg.
See!? I think one would probably need to tread carefully if NOT using
a white background. BUT!! I don't know why.
I changed my gnome-terminal from black on white to white on black.
Comments (dark blue) in bash scripts are difficult to read (unless I dim
the light in the room :) ).
Most modern terminals have a dialog to let you edit what colors are used
for each of the ANSI colors. The default ANSI colors have way too much
saturation to be readable against either black or white (think of yellow on
white).
I use a light background, so I edit all of the colors to make them much
darker, and less saturated (closer to gray). Obviously, if you use a dark
background, you would want to make them lighter, but still reduce the
saturation.
For OSX Terminal, there is a plugin "TerminalColours", but it requires a
bit of hacking to work with recent versions.
I know that Konsole supports color editing, and Gnome probably does,
although the Gnome project does seem to have some kind of bent on removing
the ability to configure things, so I'm not sure any more.
David
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