My biggest gripe about the default GNOME settings. Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
I vastly prefer suntan background and blackish font. White on black makes my eyes tired.
Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
hello!
black text on white with comic sans. lol
A variable width font in a terminal???
Use this instead: https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
I can see comic sans making it more usable
How? It’s not even a monospace font
It can be. : )
it helps if you’re middle aged and some characters like “l”, “1” and “I” look too much alike for comfort.
Not black text on white, but light grey/purple on dark grey was pretty popular with Sun Microsystems. I think OG Apple Macintosh used Black on White, or at least close enough colors.
That said I use something like this for work.
And I think all programs should follow user theming, regardless of desktop environment, widget set, or anything else. ('Scuse me while I give GTK4 the stinkeye again.) You can never tell whether someone’s colour selection is a matter of accessibility rather than just personal preference, so you absolutely should not ignore it. Defaults matter very little as long as you can change them.
Green text on a black background with a background image that makes the terminal window look like it has scan lines.
Every terminal program I used allows you to set its colours independent of the global theme.
I like to use white on a transparent/glossy color.
Kind of like this (very old pic I know):
Pure black background makes it unreadable for me. When I encountered this on websites, i use the Firefox function to turn it into a black on white background theme, so my eyes don’t hurt reading longer text. Same logic applies to the terminal, especially when programming. I think pure black as a background shouldn’t be default. However I do actually appreciate darker tones as background, but its never pure black. It depends on the combination of colors for text (and on the rest of the system theme).
Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
IIRC that’s the default on macOS if the theme is in light mode instead of dark mode. So probably.
I’ll occasionally switch to that as it shows up better on projection screens for presentations, but it’s not my default.
Guess it depends on the theme. MacOS had it since OSX. FVWM back in the day. Just changes from time to time. If I’m in a bright ass room, sometimes it can be more comfortable.
And make it #000 pure black if you do… I have written about why
Transparent is superior, fight me.
You’re wrong.
I never noticed that the gnome terminal uses light mode by default. Bit everytime i had to use gnome the first thing i do is turn on dark mode in the settings, so maybe that’s why.
If you are unable to change the default setting, you have no business opening a terminal.