On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:07:11PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> > So why don't you just change your local settings to make xterm be mono?
> > Ummm. `XTerm*ColorMode: no' seems like it'd do what you want.
>
> That seems to work just fine. I wish I was aware of that resource a bit
> earlier...
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> > Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess
> > somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour
> > package.
>
> I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work
> perfectly for
Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
>
> > Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess
> > somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour
> > package.
>
> I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work
> perfectly for centuries. Or do you only read books wit
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> > Why does debian have to be different than the rest of the world in
> > everything? Why do I get colors when I set TERM=xterm? there was already
> > xterm-color and
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> Why does debian have to be different than the rest of the world in
> everything? Why do I get colors when I set TERM=xterm? there was already
> xterm-color and xterm-debian which could do colors.
Other Linux distributions tend to
> Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess
> somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour
> package.
I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work
perfectly for centuries. Or do you only read books with white letters on
a black background,
> Date: 24 Mar 2000 11:43:38 +0100
> From: Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
>
> Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Unless the darkish colours get used as alt
On 24-Mar-00, 10:19 (CST), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > (I wonder if the preference for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light depends
> > > on ambient light conditions?)
> >
> > I usually like to work in a relatively dark room. I think I'm nocturnal or
> > something (looks at clock
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:29:07PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> With the advent of powerful workstation monitors delivering 70 Hz or
> more, the most glaring problem of black/white became less and less
> important.
Even on 85Hz or even higher vertical frequencies, I find black-on-white
XTerms
On 24-Mar-00, 03:22 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Because that's what xterms do (by default) on every other single X
> > implementation ever done? (Ok, that's probably an exageration...but not
> > completely misleading, either.)
>
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the case of terminal colours, I thought most people really did
> use black bg terminals, or at least dark something, like blue. Also,
> real VT100s and VT220s have black bg screens with amber text.
> There's a precedent for black bg terminals outside o
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unless the darkish colours get used as alternate background colours, they
> are wasted. There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4
> ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like a bad idea. Brightening them up so
> they look good on a black backg
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:50:59 -0600
> From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
>
> There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4
> > ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like
On 22-Mar-00, 21:41 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, I took another look at the console. The ANSI bright-blue used by
> ls for directories is actually quite easy to see. The normal blue used by
> lynx is not great, but readable. I'm sure there is a way to set the col
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:41:35PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:56:52 -0600
> > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
> >
> > On 21
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:56:52 -0600
> From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
>
> On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The Linux text con
> now that you have discovered the awful secret of debian, the secret
> cabal will have to take care of you. wait right where you are. there
> will be a knock on the door shortly.
>
> craig
TINC
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:33:48AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:23:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > garabik> > COLOR:1:cyan:black
> > garabik> > COLOR:5:brightcyan:black
> >
> > The same can be said about the default "ls" colors.
> > It shows directory names with
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:21:22PM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> > The same can be said about the default "ls" colors.
> > It shows directory names with blue on black.
>
> These must be set up by some bug-eyed alien with colour-resolution
> going well into ultraviolet. :)
now that you have discov
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:23:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> garabik> >COLOR:1:cyan:black
> garabik> >COLOR:5:brightcyan:black
>
> The same can be said about the default "ls" colors.
> It shows directory names with blue on black.
yep, i forgot to mention that until after i'd sent the
On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Linux text console is readable (barely), but xterm uses and even worse
> colour for ANSI blue. (assuming black background). The fix for this
> is to change the colour used by xterm for ANSI blue, instead of changing all
>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:53:47PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:21:22 +0200
> From: Lauri Tischler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc
>
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> garabik> > lynx has the same problem. hyper links are blue on black, which
> makes it
> garabik> > very difficult to see where you are going. fixed with:
> garabik> >
> garabik> > COLOR:1:cyan:black
> garabik> > COLOR:5:brightcyan:black
>
> The same can be sai
In Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:40:53 +0100, de profundis Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> cum veritas scribat
garabik> > lynx has the same problem. hyper links are blue on black, which
makes it
garabik> > very difficult to see where you are going. fixed with:
garabik> >
garabik> > COLOR:1:cyan:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:31:40AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> lynx has the same problem. hyper links are blue on black, which makes it
> very difficult to see where you are going. fixed with:
>
> COLOR:1:cyan:black
> COLOR:5:brightcyan:black
I wonder who made up the default lynx
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt.
> Most people like it.
>
> >When using mutt in an xterm, the color bindings in /etc/Muttrc make it
> >very hard to read mail
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