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From:	Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Consistent usage of "black on white" colors in terminal
Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:09:50 +0100
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* Jim Kleckner (03-01-21 21:17 +0100)
> I have mostly gotten my bash colors to display properly with black on white
> which I find considerably more pleasing than white on black [...]
> 
> Programs like info, man, and cpan, however, do not know about these switched
> default colors.

I have switched to rxvt because of color problems with IPython and 
haven't turned back.

Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]...

Thorsten

[1]
Rxvt*background:         Black
Rxvt*backspacekey:       ^H
Rxvt*boldFont:           Fixedsys
Rxvt*colorBD:            Red
!Rxvt*colorUL:           LightGrey
Rxvt*cursorColor:        Cyan3
!Rxvt*cursorColor2:      Black
Rxvt*font:               Fixedsys
Rxvt*foreground:         LightGrey
Rxvt*geometry:           87x38
Rxvt*iconName:           rxvt
Rxvt*inheritPixmap:      False
Rxvt*loginShell:         False
Rxvt*meta8:              False
Rxvt*pointerColor:       LightGrey
Rxvt*reverseVideo:       False
Rxvt*saveLines:          64
Rxvt*scrollBar:          False
Rxvt*scrollBar_floating: True
Rxvt*scrollBar_right:    True
Rxvt*scrollColor:        LightGrey
Rxvt*scrollTtyKeypress:  False
Rxvt*scrollTtyOutput:    False
Rxvt*title:              rxvt
Rxvt*troughColor:        LightGrey
Rxvt*utmpInhibit:        False
Rxvt*visualBell:         False

! backgroundPixmap: file[;geom]
! borderColor:      color
! color0:           color
! color1:           color
! color2:           color
! color3:           color
! color4:           color
! color5:           color
! color6:           color
! color7:           color
! color8:           color
! color9:           color
! color10:          color
! color11:          color
! color12:          color
! color13:          color
! color14:          color
! color15:          color
! cutchars:         string
! deletekey:        string
! font1:            fontname
! font2:            fontname
! font3:            fontname
! font4:            fontname
! font5:            fontname
! font6:            fontname
! keysym.sym:       keysym
! mapAlert:         boolean
! menu:             name[;tag]
! modifier:         modifier
! path:             search path
! print-pipe:       string
! selectstyle:      string
! termName:         string
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