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viktoria
Joined: 16 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:02 am Post subject: Commands black background in Linode Library tire my eyes |
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| I am a newbie and reading the Linode Library very often. I have noticed that when I am reading the page with many commands like this one http://library.linode.com/web-servers/apache/installation/ubuntu-10.04-lucid my eyes are very tired of black-white contract background. Do you have the same or it's just my eyes? |
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Perihelion
Joined: 19 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the feedback! I took a look at the document in question and noticed that there are numerous commands that only have one line of text between them. I'll see what I can do to fix this guide in particular, but any suggestions on how to improve it are welcome! |
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pclissold
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| It's the same for me - they make my eyes hurt. |
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hybinet
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:58 am Post subject: |
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Black on white is OK.
White on black is OK, once you get used to it.
Alternating between the two, on the other hand, is torture. |
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obs
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| Something on the lines of black on pale yellow or light grey would be better. |
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viktoria
Joined: 16 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| Agree with obs, definitely something lighter than now. The black text on the pale yellow would be great but it's already defined as a style of text editing. |
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glg
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| you guys don't use white-on-black for terminal sessions? |
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pclissold
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:52 am Post subject: |
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glg wrote: you guys don't use white-on-black for terminal sessions?
Absolutely not -- I use black on white. White (or green) on black was OK when the terminal was the whole screen, but now the terminal is just a window in a screen that is usually quite bright, a dark window background seems to cause eye strain. |
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glg
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:05 am Post subject: |
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pclissold wrote: glg wrote: you guys don't use white-on-black for terminal sessions?
Absolutely not -- I use black on white. White (or green) on black was OK when the terminal was the whole screen, but now the terminal is just a window in a screen that is usually quite bright, a dark window background seems to cause eye strain.
guess I just do it out of habit. probably going back to before terminal programs had those options (or I never thought to look for them ;) ) |
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waldo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:24 am Post subject: |
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While most of the tutorials I've looked at don't bother me, that one with so much change between black on white to white on black actually does bother my eyes. If it were bigger sections of white on black I think my eyes would be fine.
I don't see why black on light grey wouldn't work equally well for the example and be easier on everyone's eyes. |
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Guspaz
Joined: 26 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| Well, the traditional terminal is white on black, so putting commands to be executed in a terminal as that colour in a tutorial makes sense... |
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rsk
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pclissold wrote: Absolutely not -- I use black on white. White (or green) on black was OK when the terminal was the whole screen, but now the terminal is just a window in a screen that is usually quite bright, a dark window background seems to cause eye strain.
Nothing (except poorly written apps that hardcode dark FG color assuming BG is bright or vice-versa) prevents you from setting up a generally dark system color scheme. I use white on dark grayish-blue, for example.
Well, unless you're on a Mac. I seem to recall there is/was some magic key combo to turn everything into negative colors, tho, so it'd be mostly black...? |
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