White-on-black terminal should be default

Chris Cheney ccheney at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 4 02:52:05 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:23 +0100, Remco wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black
> >> background.  It's ergonomically very bad.  I never use such a terminal
> >> except in Windows, where I haven't figured out (nor spent enough time to
> >> need to) how to change it.
> >
> > I agree. I would rather not have my terminals look like a tty!
> >
> 
> Would it be possible to have black text on a white background for the
> virtual terminals, too? The current low-resolution white-on-black is
> not very comfortable.

Its high resolution on Lucid with kms on systems that support kms
anyway.

Chris





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