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I hate colorized output with a passion and disable it in my personal shell. You never know what the background color of a terminal might be, and there is a goo

I hate colorized output with a passion and disable it in my personal shell. You never know what the background color of a terminal might be, and there is a good chance at least one color will disappear entirely into the terminal background. Nothing grinds my gears like the DARK BLUE on BLACK colors in the UEFI shell.

cyclotron3k 3y ago
Each to their own of course, but I can't imagine _not_ using colours. It would be like using a code editor with syntax highlighting turned off. Madness!
- chungy 3y ago
  Some of us started with editors that didn't have syntax highlighting at all.
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    Everything reminds me of my ex.
    - ChoHag 3y ago
      [dead]
charcircuit 3y ago
>You never know what the background color of a terminal might be You can set the background color to. So if you set the background to dark grey you can assume the background is dark grey. Assuming the terminal supports color that is.
- drewg123 3y ago
  In the specific example I give, no I cannot change the background color of the UEFI shell as far as I know. That's why the dark-blue on black color chosen by the UEFI shell people is so horrible.
  - charcircuit 3y ago
    My comment was about the program sending a control code to set the background color to ensure the text is visible.
dredmorbius 3y ago
Even on revered terminals such as xterm or rxvt (and variants) it's often possible to modify the displayed characteristics of ANSI colour sequences, see: <https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#color_by_number https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#color_by_n...> Researching this comment I found it's also possible to toggle urxvt colour themes on the fly, via Stack Exchange: <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/296257/different-color-schemes-in-urxvt https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/296257/different-co...> I'm not sure that this is also possible on, say, the Linux console itself, though I suspect it may be. I too had a first impression over a quarter-century ago the first time I saw a colourised 'ls' output on my first freshly-installed Linux system that they were garish, and have often griped about dark-blue-on-black (which is how I'd discovered the palette configurations referenced above). But I quickly found the feature useful and helpful and miss it when on a true monochrome device (of late: an e-ink tablet with Termux installed for a Linux userland). On Linux, if something annoys you, there's almost always an alternative or configuration to alleviate that.
xigoi 3y ago
Then set your dark blue to be lighter.

cyclotron3k 3y ago

Each to their own of course, but I can't imagine _not_ using colours. It would be like using a code editor with syntax highlighting turned off. Madness!

chungy 3y ago
Some of us started with editors that didn't have syntax highlighting at all.
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  Everything reminds me of my ex.
  - ChoHag 3y ago
    [dead]

charcircuit 3y ago

>You never know what the background color of a terminal might be You can set the background color to. So if you set the background to dark grey you can assume the background is dark grey. Assuming the terminal supports color that is.

drewg123 3y ago
In the specific example I give, no I cannot change the background color of the UEFI shell as far as I know. That's why the dark-blue on black color chosen by the UEFI shell people is so horrible.
- charcircuit 3y ago
  My comment was about the program sending a control code to set the background color to ensure the text is visible.

dredmorbius 3y ago

Even on revered terminals such as xterm or rxvt (and variants) it's often possible to modify the displayed characteristics of ANSI colour sequences, see: <https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#color_by_number https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#color_by_n...> Researching this comment I found it's also possible to toggle urxvt colour themes on the fly, via Stack Exchange: <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/296257/different-color-schemes-in-urxvt https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/296257/different-co...> I'm not sure that this is also possible on, say, the Linux console itself, though I suspect it may be. I too had a first impression over a quarter-century ago the first time I saw a colourised 'ls' output on my first freshly-installed Linux system that they were garish, and have often griped about dark-blue-on-black (which is how I'd discovered the palette configurations referenced above). But I quickly found the feature useful and helpful and miss it when on a true monochrome device (of late: an e-ink tablet with Termux installed for a Linux userland). On Linux, if something annoys you, there's almost always an alternative or configuration to alleviate that.

xigoi 3y ago

Then set your dark blue to be lighter.