> Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess > somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour > package.
I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work perfectly for centuries. Or do you only read books with white letters on a black background, or all sorts of colors for differently styled text??? > > > Is there a reason why /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm defaults to black on white Is there any reason not to? But a more interesting question is the following: Is there a reason why xterm defaults to color xterm? In slink it does, on potato it's changed all of a sudden. Which is probably the reason I started this thread by filing a bug report against mutt's default colors. (see http://duckman.blub.net/~wouter/muttdefaults.png) > I'm going to go out on a limb and say that not many people actually like > "black" on "white", or vice versa. Well, I do, as you know by now :) > Maybe the default should be > fg: black, bg: blanchedAlmond which works the same as black on white for > configuration of colours in programs, but which doesn't strain the eyes. NO!!! Why does debian have to be different than the rest of the world in everything? Why do I get colors when I set TERM=xterm? there was already xterm-color and xterm-debian which could do colors. Right now, I have to set my TERM to xterm-mono on potato to avoid fruitsalads in a handful of programs I use very often (Mutt, dselect, vim). That is very annoying, because it results in broken terminal settings when I login to *any* other system. Maybe I'm the only one who hates colors in xterms, but still. It should be possible to use xterms without colors in a normal way, and right now it isn't. Please leave *personal* configuration to the *user*, and leave the system configuration to some reasonable, _very_ conservative defaults. Wouter. -- Wat voor een paperclip geldt, geldt in wezen ook voor een server. - Compaq over de nieuwste ProLiant servers