Terminal color scheme?
-Chris
12 Replies
@caker:
For me: black background with no transparency and white text (with colorizing here and there depending on the app)..
same, and colorize ls and grep
@hoopycat:
Black background with just a bit of transparency …and vim/ls syntax and colourization on.
But, my general purpose terminal is a 90 x 50 black-on-white window.
Of course, this is the best possible combination.
My eyes don't get tired as quickly looking at white on a very deep blue. I haven't taken the hour or so to tweak everything in every terminal, but I do use MiscFixedB613 with white on black currently. I'm itching to switch back to deep blue. I also have transparency on at the moment, but I forget why.
Now that I've posted this, my productivity's shot for the day because I'm gonna go tweak.
I used white-on-blue for years in DOS windows but as the resolution and brightness of monitors increased I switched to black-on-white. I know that people complain about eye fatigue but for whatever reason, I don't have that trouble.
Sometimes I like to hit Command-Option-Control-8 to get an "easier to read" screen if the light is bad or my eyes simply won't focus.
I also use a little bit of transparency. It helps me out visually although I cannot pin point in what way. I just know I prefer it.
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@jed:
One day, long ago, I discovered the "blue" mode in Microsoft Word. You know what I'm talking about – high-contrast readability or whatever they call it, with white text on blue paper.
Heh, that's the colour scheme I used to use 20-odd years ago in ProComm (terminal emulator) back when my access was limited to X25 connections via PADs.