xmonad:

I note that normalBorderColor is a grey, and focusedBorderColor is red. I don't find these particularly distinguishable.

Likely that's because I'm in the 10% or so of men who have red-green colour blindness (I believe it's normally the red receptor that's missing).

Not a big deal, since this is easily changed. But maybe there's some alternative that would be acceptable to almost everyone? I find

focusedBorderColor = "#ff00ff"

to be nicely visible. Maybe it's too obvious?

I think this is an interesting issue. Magenta seems a bit horrible though :-) Perhaps we can just suggest some higher visibility settings on the web page? -- Don

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:58:12AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:

I note that normalBorderColor is a grey, and focusedBorderColor is red. I don't find these particularly distinguishable.

I agree, and I have normal color vision. At the moment I use these settings: normalBorderColor = "#333333" -- dark grey focusedBorderColor = "#aecf96" -- light green I find these colors very appealing and easy to distinguish against black terminals. With GUI apps and their grey-colored widgets the colors do not work, but I usually use GUI apps only in fullscreen mode so it's not such a problem. I picked the latter color from some dzen screenshot by Rob, by the way. -- Miikka Koskinen, aka. arcatan