On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:53:47PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:21:22 +0200 > From: Lauri Tischler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc > should not use colors) > > Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > > garabik> > lynx has the same problem. hyper links are blue on black, which > > makes it > > garabik> > very difficult to see where you are going. fixed with: > > garabik> > > > garabik> > COLOR:1:cyan:black > > garabik> > COLOR:5:brightcyan:black > > > > The same can be said about the default "ls" colors. > > It shows directory names with blue on black. > > These must be set up by some bug-eyed alien with colour-resolution going > well into ultraviolet. :) >
The Linux text console is readable (barely), but xterm uses and even worse colour for ANSI blue. (assuming black background). The fix for this is to change the colour used by xterm for ANSI blue, instead of changing all apps to use a different ANSI colour escape code. xterm and (some) friends use the XTerm*colorn resource to say what X colour to use for ANSI colour n. This is documented in xterm(1). I like to use the following additions to /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm: ! local additions (PJC) /* blue that is used by color ls, and by lynx. this is brighter than default */ #define BLUE_COLOUR #7777ff XTerm*color4: BLUE_COLOUR XTerm*color12: BLUE_COLOUR XTerm*SimpleMenu.background: yellow XTerm*SimpleMenu*foreground: black XTerm*reverseWrap: true This makes ANSI blue nice and readable, in bold and non-bold. enjoy :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
