Re: Separating line color and dot/dash pattern

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Saturday 05 February 2005 01:45 pm, you wrote:
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>>Some of the colors in X11 are too bright to contrast against a gray or
>>white background.  In particular, green and cyan are difficult to see.
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>You do realize that you can redefine the X11 colors in your
>.Xdefaults file?  
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Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about that .Xdefaults file.

>After all, the appearance also depends on your local
>monitor gamma setting, and the default background color, and so on.
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You're right.  I'd say though that trying to retain color schemes across 
terminals is a good thing.  If someone wants to modify the scheme, he or 
she can.  It's quite disorienting when the color scheme changes across 
terminals.  (Yellow becoming brown seems the most egregious example I 
can think of.  Magenta to purple isn't too bad...  I know, megenta and 
purple are close enough that adjusting the screen might change one to 
another.)

Dan