Poll: What colours do you use in your shell?

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by Zilioum • 16 years ago

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Zilioum2• 16 years ago

There was a discussion on Stack Overflow about the health benefits of dark vs. light backgrounds. Apparently black on white is best: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498698/white-light-vs-bla...

there• 16 years ago

black on gray95. black on white is the default xterm setup (in openbsd at least) so it's just what i've used forever, though i've recently been playing with different shades of light gray instead of white.

mutt, vim, epic, tmux, etc. are similarly styled, using color only when absolutely necessary (like flagged messages in mutt show up in red, comments in vim are a gray color)

http://i.imgur.com/6zKoK.png

johncoltrane• 16 years ago

#d2d2d2 (very light grey) on #292929 (very dark grey)

Zilioum2• 16 years ago

I just tried out the colour scheme from the gitimmersion.com tutorial. Pastel green on very dark grey works well for me.

Poll: What colours do you use in your shell?

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