[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-20 Thread Martin Vaeth
James Cloos wrote: > For eix, I have this in a file in /etc/eixrc/: > > BG0=none > BG1=none > BG2=none > BG3=none If you only use colorscheme 3 you need only BG3=none > COLORSCHEME0=3 > COLORSCHEME1=3 The former (...0=3) should have no effect at all if your TERM is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/04/18 16:28, John Blinka wrote: > My sympathies to the OP. I fought against dark terminal backgrounds > for years (paper is white and ink is black, right?), tweaked all the > colors through every mechanism I knew of, and never did arrive at a > satisfactory result. Paper is reflective,

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-04-19 20:57, Grant Edwards wrote: > > It depends on your terminal app. I use (u)rxvt and I remap the > > colors for it globally. Here are the settings (from .Xresources): > > > > *.beNiceToColormap: false > > Rxvt.background: seashell > > Rxvt.color10: green4 > > Rxvt.color11: orange2 >

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-04-19, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-04-19 08:16, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >> simple unreadable (like light green). I searched how to adapt them to >> my background but did not success. I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/19/18 07:38, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:16:30 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> >>> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >>> simple unreadable [...] > >> I use a light background in my

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-04-19 08:16, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I recently start with gentoo due to frustration of the rapidly > degrading quality of debian. Hello, good to meet you again ;-) > Currently I have pretty good feelings about gentoo but there is one > thing that is pretty annoying. > > I use light

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >> simple unreadable (like light green). > > Yep, it's awful. People have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >> simple unreadable (like light green). > > Yep, it's awful. People have been

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-04-19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:16:30 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >> simple unreadable [...] > I use a light background in my terminal and use color.map to deal with > it.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-04-19, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are > simple unreadable (like light green). Yep, it's awful. People have been complaining about it for years and years. > I searched how to adapt them to my background