On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:39:33PM +0000, Tristan Scott wrote:
well, I think most distros do this already but putting 'alias ls="ls --color=always" in the appropriate bash rc file will make some pretty colours appear whenever you type 'ls'.
Yes, and it really gets up my nose! :-) The first thing I do after installing a new version of Linux is to turn off that LS colour highlighting. Apart from anything else on anything but a dark background some of the colours are all but illegible.
The latest(ish) verson of morphix (or knoppix, I forget) displays an image in the background of the terminal, behind all the text, which looks quite nice. I'll be damned if I know how to do it though.
and the gentoo liveCD.
its a frame-buffer background image, specified in the kernel or grub i think for a virtual terminal. under X, most terminal emulators do backgrounds my favorite Eterm, does a random, sensibly-dark background image, or my favorite, can go transparent and show the desktop background (darkened) through it. Given my desktop background is a current (live) view of the world complete with current clouds and sattelite tracks and horizons on it, (xplanetbg) this looks quite nice.
Total disaster for me, all my terminal windows are set up to display dark text on a light background, I'm afraid I'm an old fogey, I just want minimal distraction on my desktop.