[ale] Xterm (and a little OT)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 13:22 -0500, Jim wrote:
> 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.

You'll be in a line...
> 
> Jim.
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:28 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Christopher Fowler 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.
> >>>
> >>>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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