[Cialug] LS ?

Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Fri Apr 27 11:27:58 CDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 10:53 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 10:35 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> >> In RedHat, the shade of blue is so dark you can barely read it. In 
> >> Mandriva & debian, it's a lot lighter.
> >>
> >> You can change it, but it's yet another PITA about RH.
> > 
> > What version/terminal program?  Using gnome-terminal on every Fedora
> > release in recent memory I've always had a white background.
> 
> Yeah, but you wouldn't actually USE a white background term window would 
> you? That's so n00b. Every nerd worth his salt sets it to a black 
> background with green text. You know, so you get the retro "green 
> screen" look, and when you're grepping through your logs, it looks like 
> The Matrix, right?

I'm so over the Matrix look and I'm so over tweaking every last UI
button, knob and themeable element.  And looking at any color text on a
black background makes my eyes hurt.  There's a reason that paper is
white you know...

> 99% of my interaction with RH boxen is via Putty terminal windows - I 
> rarely get on the actual console of one.

Putty?

Jeff
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