term colors

wahi · 2011-01-27 04:12:43

i get eye strain looking at the black term with white letters. it severly limits the amount of time i can stay there. changing the text color was of no avail because the rest of the screen remains unaffected.

is there a way that i could somehow get the background to be white with black text on it like a textbox? i did google this a couple of times but i could find no relevant results. are other people comfortable working in the dark?

tia

Anikom15 · 2011-01-27 04:17:40

Working in the dark is fine for me. Perhaps you need more ambient lighting.

I don't think you can change the virtual tty's background colors, but maybe.

Last edited by Anikom15 (2011-01-27 04:19:00)

d2ogch3n · 2011-01-27 04:21:53

If you're talking about xterm etc. Create a file in your $HOME named .Xdefaults and add these two lines

*background: #ffffff
*foreground: #000000

wahi · 2011-01-27 04:27:37

my lighting is very poorly designed. but its a hostel room so there isn't much i can do about it.

wahi · 2011-01-27 04:28:48

d2ogch3n wrote:

If you're talking about xterm etc. Create a file in your $HOME named .Xdefaults and add these two lines
*background: #ffffff
*foreground: #000000

i meant the tty.

greyscale · 2011-01-27 07:45:29

Try running

# Change bg color
setterm -background blue

# "store" changes so that they will be used when reset-to-defaults
setterm -store

# reset terminal
reset

But don't think it "stores" it over a reboot etc, so think you will have to put it in
your login-script or something like that.

Seems to do the trick when I did a quick test at least,

setterm's man page will probably give your some more info on the subject.

Last edited by greyscale (2011-01-27 07:46:28)

jasonwryan · 2011-01-27 07:52:35

You could also check out the Overlord's post on setting colors in TTY

http://phraktured.net/linux-console-colors.html

thayer · 2011-01-27 18:01:42

jasonwryan wrote:

You could also check out the Overlord's post on setting colors in TTY
http://phraktured.net/linux-console-colors.html

+1

There are sometimes side effects because the background colour is assumed to be dark, but for the most part it works out. I agree about the dark-on-white schemes though. I once hated light terminal backgrounds and now I'm the opposite; my vision blurs when trying to read multiple lines of light-on-dark text.

penguin · 2011-01-28 14:43:54

I think you can do some pretty cool modifications to tty if you use fbterm:
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28 … e-console/

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