From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 23:40:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE4137B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-003dcwashP290.dialsprint.net [206.133.15.156]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18652; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DBC8950CF1; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:39:48 -0400 From: parv To: John Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colors really dark Message-ID: <20011023023948.A74369@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: John Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from ludwicza@hotmail.com on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:03:28PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , wrote John Smith thusly... > ... > I was thinking about 8-bit > color for a second, but does a default install automatically pick this for > you, and is there any way of changing it? see XFree86 manual(s) and/or XF86Config somewhere in /etc. > I've used Linux for a few years, > and I know how vim looks between every Linux system by default with syntax > highlighting on, it's just it very dark in FreeBSD's console. I installed > gnuls and found it to be a much better alternative to FreeBSD's ls, since it > does sorting by extension, and the colors are much brighter, and easier to > see. well, as far as ls(1) & gnuls(1) are concerned, they just use different "fonts" & colors. for ls, all the colored listing are in normal font, i.e. not bold. whereas, gnuls uses bold fonts, which happens to be in "bright"er version of the same color than normal font. for directories, both ls & gnuls use blue, which is very unreadable on dark background. however, gnuls also uses bolder font, which helps a little. and for executable files and symlinks, gnuls uses bold font and bright(green,cyan), while ls uses red and magenta, respectively. color choices for ls, in this case, are not easily readable on dark background, understandably. you may be able to change to color definitions. to get some idea, see vidcontrol(1) and xterm(1) in addition. - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message