[ale] Xterm (and a little OT)

[Scott Castaline]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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