[ale] Xterm

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

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. :)

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Until later, Geoffrey