[ale] Xterm

[Scott Castaline]

Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:28 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> There is something mysterious about using an Xterm with a background of
>>>> black and foreground of white.  Its as if I'm looking through a window
>>>> into the system itself capable of taking the power of Linux into my own
>>>> hands.
>>>>
>>>> I don't get this feeling when the xterm has a bg of white and an fg of
>>>> black.  Its like looking at a boring piece of paper with drivel all over
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> I do get this feeling when I have a bg of black and fg of either green
>>>> or amber.  But to me the window is more like a classy text terminal that
>>>> is the road to the heart of the system.
>>>>
>>>> Just a thought that popped in my head after I executed Xterm for the
>>>> 50th time today.
>>>>         
>>> Go with a mixture of red and blue.   It'll appear as if the text is 
>>> floating on the background.  It's because the visible frequencies are so 
>>> far apart. :)
>>>       
>> That is a guaranteed headache! Because the frequencies are so far apart
>> the eye can't focus on both at the same time so the always look like the
>> "swim".
>>     
>
> Exactly, I can remember as a kid, we had this board game that had red 
> lettering on blue background.  If you shook the box back and forth, the 
> letters looked like they moved independent of the background...
>
>   
>> If I really wanted nausea while working, I'd still be using Microsoft :}
>>     
>
> Good point.  I've given up Microsoft and alcohol...
>
>   
Reminds me more of a bad acid trip back in the 60's