Poll: What colours do you use in your shell?

Posted by Zilioum on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @02:57PM
from the you-decide dept.

In the movies the hackers almost always have a terminal with a black background and green text. Personally I use black text on a white background. I was wondering what combination is used the most and if there a lot of people actually using the 'matrix' style. Please explain in the comments why you chose your particular colour combination.

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Poll

Green on black 1 vote

White on black 2 votes

Black on white 2 votes

Different combination 3 votes

Re:Poll: What colours do you use in your shell? by Zilioum on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @02:59PM (#2117127)

There was a discussion on Stack Overflow about the health benefits of dark vs. light backgrounds. Apparently black on white is best: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498698/white-light-vs-bla...

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Re:Poll: What colours do you use in your shell? by there on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:09PM (#2117167)

black on gray95. black on white is the default xterm setup (in openbsd at least) so it's just what i've used forever, though i've recently been playing with different shades of light gray instead of white.

mutt, vim, epic, tmux, etc. are similarly styled, using color only when absolutely necessary (like flagged messages in mutt show up in red, comments in vim are a gray color)

http://i.imgur.com/6zKoK.png

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Re:Poll: What colours do you use in your shell? by Zilioum on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:25PM (#2117238)

I just tried out the colour scheme from the gitimmersion.com tutorial. Pastel green on very dark grey works well for me.

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Re:Poll: What colours do you use in your shell? by johncoltrane on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:13PM (#2117183)

#d2d2d2 (very light grey) on #292929 (very dark grey)

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