Hey acme, it seems you've forgotten this one.
I still need it please :-) On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:32:13AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Boris reported that 'perf top' is unusable on his default 'black on > white' terminal, which uses (eye friendly) light-grey as a background > color. > > The reason is that the TUI cursor for the current selection line uses > HE_COLORSET_SELECTED, and that has a default background color of > 'lightgrey' - which is a common terminal background choice and thus > the colors conflict. > > Use yellow as the background color instead: that should be an uncommon > terminal background, yet it's still ergonomic on both black and > white/grey terminals. > > [ It would be a better solution to straight out detect color > collisions and resolve them reasonably by converting them to RGB and > calculating color space distances, but I was unable to find > proper documentation for SLtt_get_color_object() to recover the > current color scheme so I gave up ... Yellow works well enough. ] > > Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> > Cc: David Binderman <dcb...@hotmail.com> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > --- > tools/perf/ui/browser.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c > index 6680fa5cb9dd..688acb94c01f 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c > +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c > @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static struct ui_browser_colorset { > .colorset = HE_COLORSET_SELECTED, > .name = "selected", > .fg = "black", > - .bg = "lightgray", > + .bg = "yellow", > }, > { > .colorset = HE_COLORSET_CODE, > -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/