Re: brightwhite or other coot-suitable color

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:25:49 -0500, Fleet Teachout wrote:

> Is there any way to make the "normal" foreground color bright white.  I
> use a black background and the "white" foreground color is so dim I have
> a hard time reading the messages. (I'm 69 with a cataract on one eye -
> dimmness may not lie entirely with pine.)

	I can't answer the question as asked; my gnome-terminal wouldn't 
give me such a color, either. 

	But I can tell you how I cope with arthritic eyeballs and 
trifocal fingers -- especially if any of your dimness, like mine, has rto 
do with antiquated irises, stiffening like the lenses in front of them, 
that don't open and close at near the speed they once did. (E.g., if 
oncoming headlights make driving at night difficult, you have the 
problem.)

	I keep profiles with pale pastel colors and very deep colored 
text : pale green for normal, pale blue for any tab su'd to root, pale 
pink for one ssh'd to another machine, and so on. The text is black or 
close to it unless root is using the keyboard; then it's deepest blood 
red. 

	The pale pastels are actually easier on the eyes than the glaring 
white -- enough easier so that the slightly lessened contrast is quite 
adequate, at least for me.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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