From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q23mv-0004nG-8E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:46:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C51CB1C063; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978311C063 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so4237873gxk.40 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:44:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=x1IBeDLyoXMDHxWcEOkCC8/815i/R2gj+AymVb3TF34=; b=sQzpiNdpDX58I/ccSJ3PlbzRXmmrJcqiTBRrDPt9eYuanG2cUQ1VqEp88uvne46aK0 qL6H2JZ4UwLUzi5Cxhoo5CkZtdXFMFedgPPmQGc+s61W2g91lPqDz9Kiz5BrsE80Uz10 c45KW3/JuUpXzFQe2GBHiarLHw4AzOb5sNMDw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=Sb7y73MLAuvAyQ1GEdVsWmOMARFb8IpmkeCRdF5BeX4/Bx+1EZ9D6k4NsfB5utRhK2 JFg5XsEjPy4dlbP5NWlKeS5685QrpC6P8Yeczr4DV+DreOy70HDMecYTJQ116b9SXiKh wRjwya1lC0EEgnRbmQqfhh+8Qs9YYnKBavY8Q= Received: by 10.52.74.37 with SMTP id q5mr5772515vdv.66.1300808654399; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.163.42 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:43:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John Blinka Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e6fc1062828b2ee13cf9872b7bd8095c Hi, All, 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. I have tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but without notable success. I once tried making the yellow darker in various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text became unreadable if I highlighted it. I tried dark backgrounds for a while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for any suggestions, John Blinka