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11 Responses to "QotD: Terminal"

1. | Reply D'Arcy Norman
   Posted 22 Mar 2005 at 11:30am #
   

   Green text on black background, set to be slightly transparent. Terminals simply have to be monochromatic green screens... I guess that kind of dates me though...

2. | Reply Jason McLeod
   Posted 22 Mar 2005 at 11:33am #
   

   Green text, black background with a purple prompt, displaying the time, login, machine, file count, current path and size of files in the current directory.

   Last login: Tue Mar 22 11:15:49 on console

   Welcome to Darwin!

   [11:27][anakin@Core][3.14-0x (0.001Mb) 9.14d]

   [/Users/anakin]$

3. | Reply Steve Streza
   Posted 22 Mar 2005 at 1:02pm #
   

   I'm with them. /|\

4. | Reply Mike Zornek
   Posted 22 Mar 2005 at 2:20pm #
   

   Amber on Black, aliased text -- nothing all that interesting.

5. | Reply Tim Buchheim
   Posted 22 Mar 2005 at 2:57pm #
   

   With modern typefaces, at relatively small sizes, I prefer black text on a white background. (whereas back in the 80s, on an Apple II, white/green/amber on black was much more readable)

   My terminal windows are usually transparent, and either white or a light pastel color. On my machine I use a script to choose a random color for a window (allowing me to easily keep track of which window is which even if I have several open)

6. | Reply Sharp-eyed Blog
   Posted 22 Mar 2005 at 6:34pm #
   

   My Terminal

   Erik asks: What color is your terminal background? Mine's White text on Black with about 50% transparency:...

7. | Reply Carl
   Posted 23 Mar 2005 at 4:39am #
   

   I'm with the crowd: green text, black background, semi-transparent. It has that nice "Laser 128" feel you want in a terminal.

8. | Reply Steve Jacobs
   Posted 23 Mar 2005 at 8:18am #
   

   Green Text, Semi-Transparent background also. From all the comments here I'm amused at how popular it is 🙂

9. | Reply Jonathan Deutsch
   Posted 23 Mar 2005 at 1:25pm #
   

   I use a modified version of a script found on macosxhints. I randomize the hue, set saturation to .27, set the value to .59, and have no transparency. The text is white Monaco 10. This way I can easily recognize different windows.

10. | Reply Nathan Sharfi
    Posted 24 Mar 2005 at 1:20am #
    

    White, unantialiased Monaco 10 on Lead (#191919). Opaque.

11. | Reply grubi
    Posted 25 Mar 2005 at 12:32am #
    

    Weird. I put the same thing: black background, green lettering. Except that I also use a nifty Dot Matrix font to add to the old school feel.

    That's so cool that nerds have independently of each other implemented such similar schemes. 🙂