What colour shell text and background?

[skiba]

What do other people use? I'm torn between black and grey/white or white and black? Anyone suggest any better combos that are easy on the eyes?

 

[Echo toxin]

I always go for the bog standard "Amstrad look of yore" combo which is green text on a black background. I always believed that this combo is best suited to your eyes as green text doesn't place as much of a strain as other colours. Whether it's true or not, haven't the foggiest!

 

[daven1986]

green on black for me at uni

 

[shine]

white on black for production boxes and black on white for dev/test boxes.

 

[skiba]

white on black for production boxes and black on white for dev/test boxes.

interesting but how does your profile distinguish between the two?

I think my eyes would find it too hard to adjust between them tho. Am tempted by black and green now...

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Light gray text on semi-transparent black background. I use it for Linux boxes and OS X boxes alike.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

"Linux colors" schema on Konsole.

Looks like this:

 

[Spyhop]

Ewww. Anti-aliased text in a shell.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

If it could be switched off, they would be.

 

[Moredhel]

Grey on black. I find it easiest on the eyes.

Of course with vim etc i have syntax hilighting which is lots of colours.

 

[MrWhippy]

i use green text on black, or orange on black, reminds me of my youf.

 

[shine]

interesting but how does your profile distinguish between the two?

I think my eyes would find it too hard to adjust between them tho. Am tempted by black and green now...

I use putty - you can set the colours per box.

 

[riddlermarc]

Standard PuTTY colours of grey on black, black on white when using XFCE (ZX Spectrum days!).. although I am intrigued now with using green on black

 

[MiggyMan]

Translucent green with white text