I started coding in the early '80s. All we had then were
80x24 tty's, dark background and a green or amber foreground.
But ever since I got access to GUIs (first SUNs old sunview
or suntools, or whatever it was called, later X Windows) in
the late '80s, I've always used a black foreground and a
light background. Something off-white. Currently I use 'wheat'
as the background color - but that can vary depending on the
monitor being used and the lighting conditions of the office.
As font, I always use a fixed font, typically the largest
font that gives me 2 non-overlapping windows next to each
other, and vertically I want to be able to have at least
2 24 line non-overlapping windows, with some room to spare.
On the laptop I'm working off now, this means the font choosen
is '6x13'.
This is in my .Xdefaults file, both on my laptop, my office
workstation, and my box at home:
XTerm*font: 6x13
XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*background: wheat
XTerm*scrollBar: true
XTerm*saveLines: 2500
Rxvt*scrollBar_right: true
I never had a problem with it, not even in sessions lasting
over 24 hours.
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|