Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

[Bill Longman]

On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font
> colors in my x11-terms/terminal.  I like a white background and a
> black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of
> the time.  The colors that appear by default with the ls command are
> perfect.  But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and
> the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with
> dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely
> unreadable.  In particular, the light yellow font on a white
> background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible.  I have
> tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but
> without notable success.  I once tried making the yellow darker in
> various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text
> became unreadable if I highlighted it.  I tried dark backgrounds for a
> while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on
> white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me.  And I haven't
> found any satisfactory answers with web searches.  Is there anybody
> with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,

Will someone please answer John so I can use it too?!!!!

And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses
vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff
mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections
of documents completely illegible.

My workarounds are to use vim's "syntax off" in *each* window (PITA)
which solves the vimdiff problem.

For poor color, I use xterm's Ctrl-Middle menu to go dark background.

And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so
I'm constantly have to do ":set bg=light".

I use xterm.