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Marc Haber wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

> Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid> wrote:
>>I have recently been reviewing my system configuration, and spent rather a 
>>lot of time on trying different color themes for my terminal emulator. I 
>>discovered that there are a whole lot of themes pre-made and available for 
>>every terminal imaginable (that supports such a thing).
>>
>>I was curious what themes (and terminals?) people are using these days, 
>>and if you have favorites you want to share.
>
> I use konsole on KDE and have my color scheme set to "black on random
> light". It is said that light backgrounds are easier on your eyes. The
> changing background helps me to distinguish terminals more easily.
>
> However, some of the colors that ls uses to color files don't fit well
> with some of those backgrounds. This has bothered me for more than a
> decade but never enough for me to dive into configuration to change
> that. And there is software that doesn't allow that configurability
> and doesn't fit a light background at all.

I carry a copy of my heavily edited /etc/DIR_COLORS around. Too
big to paste here I think.

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  Re: Terminal color themes The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-09 20:32 +0000
    Re: Terminal color themes Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:40 +0000
      Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-10 08:03 +0000
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  Re: Terminal color themes Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:31 +0000
    Re: Terminal color themes Lafe <lafe@lafes.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:45 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-11-10 08:28 +0100
    Re: Terminal color themes Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 08:19 +0000
      Re: Terminal color themes Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> - 2025-11-10 12:51 +0000
        Re: Terminal color themes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:11 +0000
      Re: Terminal color themes Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-11-10 15:12 +0100
        Re: Terminal color themes Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 23:56 +0000
          Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-11 03:49 +0000
          Re: Terminal color themes Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-11-11 07:37 +0100
            Re: Terminal color themes Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-11 12:00 +0000
    Re: Terminal color themes Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-10 10:23 -0500
    Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-10 21:05 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-10 07:55 +0000
  Re: Terminal color themes Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-11-10 12:01 +0200
  Re: Terminal color themes Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-10 10:19 -0500
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  Re: Terminal color themes Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-11-15 10:03 +0000
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