OT: Re: Units??

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:25:49 +0000,
  Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Which brings me to a related problem.  When getting a colour listing in a 
> terminal I find the blue on black almost impossible to read.  I'm sure there 
> must be a way to lighten the blue, but my poking around so far hasn't found 
> it.  Any ideas?

Assuming you are talking about gnome-terminal, run it with the
--show-menubar option and then you will have access to a menu where you
can change the colors. There is a pallet with about 16 colors that get
used for various things and you can change those to work better with a dark
background. There should also be a way to change bindings to the pallet (at
least for some things), but I haven't tried that.