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Re: gnome-terminal colors
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Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:14:00 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:08:53 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote
concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors':
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)?

I'm pretty sure God meant for terminals to be white-on-black.

I have to agree to that, but some people just have to be different :P

Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
dan@giccs.georgetown.edu                                     ICQ: 1130750
Georgetown University Medical Center                       Washington, DC



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  Re: gnome-terminal colors
 
(...) 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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(...) 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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