[ale] Xterm

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 22:17:01 EST 2006


On 2/1/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> There is something mysterious about using an Xterm with a background of
> black and foreground of white.  Its as if I'm looking through a window
> into the system itself capable of taking the power of Linux into my own
> hands.
>
> I don't get this feeling when the xterm has a bg of white and an fg of
> black.  Its like looking at a boring piece of paper with drivel all over
> it.
>
> I do get this feeling when I have a bg of black and fg of either green
> or amber.  But to me the window is more like a classy text terminal that
> is the road to the heart of the system.


Black bg, green fg.  Pure power.  Not for nothing is it the symbol of
the Matrix....


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