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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com>
Subject: Re: somewhat OT ... in parts
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:15:31 -0500, Rod Person wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 08:58:23 -0800
> Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Jan 3, 2013, at 5:44 AM, Rod Person wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:53:05 -0800
> > > Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> 	thanks in advance for a few url's.  
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > I love this color scheme, I use it for everything. There is a vim
> > > specific version...http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
> > > 
> > 
> > On the vim-specific page
> > ( https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized ), it has a
> > section "Important note for terminal users".
> > 
> > Q: Did you do what it said in that section? or do you only use the
> > vim colorscheme?
> > 
> > Q: If you customized your terminal colors with solarize, does it work
> > out alright in various situations? (for example, putty versus Mac OS
> > X Terminal versus physical FreeBSD console, et cetera)
> > 
> 
> I don't use vim, sorry for giving that impression. But I do use the
> scheme for xterm and rxvt and the only real issue I ran into so far is
> that when using mc the background comes out light blue and the file
> names are in a light grey and hard to see. Otherwise it's great. 

I'm using a similar approach inspired by XFCE (version 3)
to have my xterms look solarized:

	xterm -fg black -bg beige -title Terminal

When launching the Midnight Commander inside the terminal,
everything is displayed properly. I'm using MC's default
color scheme.




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Polytropon
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