Re: [xmonad] Re: Default settings: Prompt.hs's defaultXPConfig

On Nov 13, 2008, at 08:22 , intrigeri wrote:

mail@justinbogner.com wrote (13 Nov 2008 04:21:07 GMT) :

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2) The color scheme is currently a sort of white-on-grey. It lacks contrast, IMO. Here I have 2 suggestions: 2.1) The current color values are pretty opaque. Unless you have color-values memorized, ', bgColor = "#333333"' is absolutely meaningless to you. Intrigeri's xmonad.hs has a XPConfig which looks like: fgColor = "grey80" , bgColor = "grey22" , borderColor = "grey22"

The prompt appears much the same, but the values are far more comprehensible. Even if we don't change the color scheme, this would constitute a code cleanup IMO. 2.2) I would like to switch to either green text on black (which gets us bonus hacker points :) and better contrast), or white text on black - as opposed to white text on gray. Thoughts on either color scheme? (Green-on-black would be , bgColor = "black"\n, fgColor = "green" obviously.) I happen to like these colors (they're surprisingly close to the ones I use for xterms, where I like a low contrast white on black), though I

"Gwern Branwen" writes: think simply having white on black is probably a saner default.

I generally feel white-on-black is too aggressive to the eye, and green-on-black is even worse. Just a matter of feelings anyway, I have no rational-looking paper to back up this. As Gwern said, I'm already overriding this setting anyway, so I don't really care.

I tend to prefer amber-on-black (#ca8f2d; bold #eaaf4c). That said, the standard PC terminal (e.g. on Windows) is #d6d6d6, bold #ffffff. (Trivia: OS/2 and Windows NT 3.1 used #cccccc.) And just for completeness, green-on-black #00d600/#00ff00 (obviously from the above). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH