Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm gonna guess that's a difference between plasma and LCD displays. ++ kevin On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:25:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all monitors the

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 14:25:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all monitors the background seems to crowd the glyphs -- the markings seems more slender than when the colors are reversed. That's odd - I get exactly the converse

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 31 March 2008, 19:55, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I found that man page singularly unhelpful. It lists colors and defaults, but not a word about syntax, (from that man page) SYNTAX VARIABLE = [space delimited list of attributes] and no mention of other ways of specifying colors

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've always used Linux Colours, on crt and on lcd displays. Contrast works fine for me. What display device do you use? What do you mean about contrast? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-04-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all monitors the background seems to crowd the glyphs -- the markings seems more slender than when the colors are reversed. With small fonts (I like high resolution settings for

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got a problem with the colors that are used in Gentoo stuff. I run KDE, and my terminals are generally konsoles. The colors used by portage, ls and vim always seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008, 17:30, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? You can remap the colors used by portage. man color.map -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list I found that man page

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 31 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've always used Linux Colours, on crt and on lcd displays. Contrast works fine for me. What display device do you use? What do you mean about contrast? My gentoo is using a Westinghouse flat screen with mid-range brightness and contrast. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-31 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2008, 17:30, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? You can remap the colors used by portage. man color.map -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list I

[gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've got a problem with the colors that are used in Gentoo stuff. I run KDE, and my terminals are generally konsoles. The colors used by portage, ls and vim always seem to have portions that are unreadable because of low contrast -- the text blends into the background. I've tried different

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:30:04 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got a problem with the colors that are used in Gentoo stuff. I run KDE, and my terminals are generally konsoles. The colors used by portage, ls and vim always seem to have portions that are unreadable because of low contrast --

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 29 March 2008, 17:30, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion? You can remap the colors used by portage. man color.map -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, Gentoo and colors

2008-03-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got a problem with the colors that are used in Gentoo stuff. I run KDE, and my terminals are generally konsoles. The colors used by portage, ls and vim always seem to have portions that are unreadable because of low contrast -- the text