[ale] Xterm (and a little OT)

[Jim]

I don't know about anyone else, but maybe I'm color blind.  I find a 
black background makes it incredibly hard to read any color except 
white.  putty forces a black background and when I end up on a system 
with a color ls command, I can't read half the file names.  The 
especially bad color is blue.  I know there is something there, but no 
way I can read it.

That brings up another point.  I've been cursing the idiots whose web 
sites have blue letters on black backgrounds until the other day my wife 
was complaining about the same thing at her school.  I had a brainstorm 
and brought up the site in IE.  Hm, the colors were just fine.  I hope I 
have the opportunity to take a potshot at Bill someday.

Jim.

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:28 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>  
>
>>Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>Just a thought that popped in my head after I executed Xterm for the
>>>50th time today.
>>>      
>>>
>>Go with a mixture of red and blue.   It'll appear as if the text is 
>>floating on the background.  It's because the visible frequencies are so 
>>far apart. :)
>>    
>>
>
>
>That is a guaranteed headache! Because the frequencies are so far apart
>the eye can't focus on both at the same time so the always look like the
>"swim".
>
>If I really wanted nausea while working, I'd still be using Microsoft :}
>  
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