From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 4:13:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 198AB37B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29748 invoked by uid 100); 13 Oct 2000 11:13:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14822.61030.587374.61342@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT) To: Daan Franke Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: what's the best color in xterm background for ur eyes?? In-Reply-To: <112784993@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daan Franke writes: > a white background usually hurts my eyes, as does the default taint of green > after installing windoze 9x Well, the green I can't help you with. The white being a problem probably means your monitor is running slower than your eyes like. That's why light-on-dark was popular for so long - the available hardware couldn't display a large display of a light color steadily enough to not bother people. Some people are more sensitive to it than others.