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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:24:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322162420.4d2b52b5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinF=Pbu2V-Xtt9=YVTbzHRvakAY_j-SYFGfc2qa@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote:

> For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font
> colors in my x11-terms/terminal.  I like a white background and a
> black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of
> the time.  The colors that appear by default with the ls command are
> perfect.  But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and
> the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with
> dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely
> unreadable.  In particular, the light yellow font on a white
> background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible.

You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man
portage and man color.map for details.


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Neil Bothwick

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-22 15:43 [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background John Blinka
2011-03-22 16:24 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-03-23 18:23   ` John Blinka
2011-03-23 19:05     ` Bill Longman
2011-03-22 16:30 ` Bill Longman
2011-03-22 22:36   ` Mick
2011-03-23 18:23   ` John Blinka
2011-03-23 18:49   ` Stroller

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