[ale] Xterm

[Geoffrey]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>
>>>On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:28 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>Christopher Fowler wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>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...
>>
>>  
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>>>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

Experience?  You're showing your age, and you must be older then me!

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Until later, Geoffrey