There is nothing bash can do about this. It does not even know what the background color is.
gnome-terminal sets the background color and it also sets all the other colors. So, the original complaint is that the default colors of gnome-terminal provide suboptimal contrast to the default background, which is white. As a workaround for the bug submitter: You could try the other color schemes in gnome-terminal, like rxvt, which have more saturated colors. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: bash => gnome-terminal Status: Incomplete => New ** Summary changed: - light blue on white unreadable: ssh login + default colors provide bad contrast to default background ** Description changed: - 1. installed ssh server on hardy - 2. using the standard terminal with white background to log into another server - 3. log into hardy again - 4. gives quite unreadable colors: light blue on white. see attachement. + The default colors of gnome-terminal are not optimally readable on a + white background. They should be more saturated. + + The original submitter especially did not like the "light blue" color, + which should be darker in his opinion. -- default colors provide bad contrast to default background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs