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Anybody figured out any good settings for gnome-terminal which support black text upon a white background but still work OK with both ANSI color escape sequences and Curses(ncurses)? To make things to work, I've had to use Custom/Custom in the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:53:22 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'gnome-terminal colors': (...) I'm not sure why, but I can't recreate your problem... it seems to work fine for me, unless you're trying to do something weird with (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm pretty sure God meant for terminals to be white-on-black. (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:08:53 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) I have to agree to that, but some people just have to be different :P Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've never been able to read white-on-black (or gray-on-black) text comfortably at small point sizes, due to the way raster CRT displays scan. White-on-black characters are constructed like this: _______ _(_______)_ (_) (_) (_)_______ (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I'm not exactly trying to do anything weird, but I would like arbitrary- colored text to display properly on a white background. Here's what I'm doing: (URL) get that to work, I had to tell it to make red-on-black text, gray-on-black (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:46:51 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) display... but now I must ask why are you using gnome-term anyhow? :P (...) that's always a good idea... may I ask what it is? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Uhm, Hmm, I dunno. It's what's installed by default from RHL6.1 when I click the terminal icon at the bottom of the panel, and I like it. What others should I try? Looks like xterm is somewhat configurable but I haven't read its manpage (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:10:36 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) Well, take a look at rxvt - I think it's installed by default in RH 6.1... one sec, yup, it is - though it's ver 2.6 instead of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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