Ubuntu on Windows (setup and apps)

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I enabled Ubuntu on Windows 10 some time ago and have been using it a
little.  I'm still setting things up, and have found a few oddities.

I found a great guide to setting the console to look like normal Ubuntu:
https://medium.com/better-programming/make-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-10-look-like-the-ubuntu-terminal-f7566008c5c2

That's fine, but I actually am used to the Xubuntu flavor, which is
different, and I set my terminal background to something yellowish because
I find dark backgrounds make it hard to read stuff -- no mater which of my
several monitors I try.  So for my setup on WIndows, I prepared a file
showing how I modified things -- the same way as the above web page, just
different color values in a few places.  I've copied the meat of that file
below, but I still have a problem:

I use the VIM editor a lot.  With my setup for the terminal, a number of
operations in VIM, like opening a new line, create a line of the dark
background color that I replaced with yellow everywhere else.  I don't know
if there's a VIM setting I need to change, or perhaps a setting somewhere
else.  Can anyone help me with this?

Here's the color scheme I'm using:

In the chart below, the Gen column has four possible entries:
       SB screen background
       ST screen text
       PB popup background
       PT popup text
An entry of '-' in My Preferences means the item is the same as the default

        Default                                 My Preference
-
Slot    Red     Green   Blue    Gen             Red     Green   Blue    Gen
1       0       0       0       SB      | 1     -       -       -       ST
2       0       0       128             | 2     -       -       -       -
3       0       128     0               | 3     -       180     -       -
 (lighter)
4       0       128     128             | 4     -       -       -       -
5       128     0       0               | 5     -       -       -       -
6       129     0       128     PT      | 6     -       -       -       PT
7       128     128     0               | 7     -       -       -       -
8       192     192     192             | 8     0       0       192     -
 (for darkness)
9       128     128     128             | 9     -       -       -       -
10      0       0       255             | 10    -       -       -       -
11      0       255     0               | 11    76      187     23      -
 (Kelly Green because it's darker)
12      0       255     255             | 12    -       -       -       -
13      255     0       0               | 13    -       -       -       -
14      255     0       255             | 14    -       -       -       -

15      255     255     0               | 15    -       230     -       SB
(make less green for contrast)
16      255     255     255     PB ST   | 16    -       -       -       PB

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman
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