Light background for terminals
Terminals with light background aren't cool. But I feel like my eyes suffer a bit less if the text is black on white. After some hours of tweaking, I came out with this scheme, inspired by http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Add this to your .Xdefaults
! solarized/mixed
#define S_base03 #002b36
#define S_base02 #073642
#define S_base01 #586e75
#define S_base00 #657b83
#define S_base0 #839496
#define S_base1 #93a1a1
#define S_base2 #eee8d5
#define S_base3 #fdf6e3
#define S_yellow #b58900
#define S_orange #cb4b16
#define S_red #d30102
#define S_magenta #dc322f
#define S_violet #6c71c4
#define S_blue #268bd2
#define S_cyan #2aa198
#define S_green #859900
! S_base2 is also good
*background: S_base3
*foreground: S_base03
*fading: 10
*fadeColor: S_base2
*cursorColor: S_base01
*pointerColorBackground:S_base1
*pointerColorForeground:S_base01
! black dark/light
*color0: S_base03
*color8: S_base02
! red dark/light
*color1: S_red
*color9: S_orange
! green dark/light
*color2: rgb:00/87/3a
*color10: S_green
! yellow dark/light
*color3: rgb:a9/53/0a
*color11: S_yellow
! blue dark/light
*color4: rgb:23/1b/b8
*color12: S_blue
! magenta dark/light
*color5: S_violet
*color13: S_magenta
! cyan dark/light
*color6: rgb:41/91/89
*color14: S_cyan
! white dark/light
*color7: S_base2
*color15: S_base3
Or the darker variant (colors reversed):
! solarized/mixed
#define S_base03 #002b36
#define S_base02 #073642
#define S_base01 #586e75
#define S_base00 #657b83
#define S_base0 #839496
#define S_base1 #93a1a1
#define S_base2 #eee8d5
#define S_base3 #fdf6e3
#define S_yellow #b58900
#define S_orange #cb4b16
#define S_red #d30102
#define S_magenta #dc322f
#define S_violet #6c71c4
#define S_blue #268bd2
#define S_cyan #2aa198
#define S_green #859900
! S_base2 is also good
*background: S_base3
*foreground: S_base03
*fading: 10
*fadeColor: S_base2
*cursorColor: S_base01
*pointerColorBackground:S_base1
*pointerColorForeground:S_base01
! black dark/light
*color0: S_base03
*color8: S_base02
! red dark/light
*color1: S_orange
*color9: S_red
! green dark/light
*color2: S_green
*color10: rgb:00/87/3a
! yellow dark/light
*color3: S_yellow
*color11: rgb:a9/53/0a
! blue dark/light
*color4: S_blue
*color12: rgb:23/1b/b8
! magenta dark/light
*color5: S_magenta
*color13: S_violet
! cyan dark/light
*color6: S_cyan
*color14: rgb:41/91/89
! white dark/light
*color7: S_base3
*color15: S_base2