Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt
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On 4/3/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> hoping somebody can help.
>
> i am going to do a full-upgrade, and i have 2 things i have been
> trying to do so that i can get decent accessibility.
>
> 1.
>
> in various places, such as debconf, there is a tui in debian that is
> blue, grey, and red, with black text.
>
> e.g. dpkg-reconfigure sometimes uses it. i have a lot of trouble with
> blue and some trouble with the brightness of the grey, but still want
> contrast. can i change these colors to somethign that works better
> for me? e.g. orange on black.
>
> [also the fonts are a bit small. but if i use x and a high dpi
> setting, i might be able to tolerate that. not sure.]
>
> 2.
>
> i am going to do full-upgrade in screen or tmux in an xterm.
>
> the only xterm i have gotten semi-legible is urxvt:
>
> urxvt -fn "xft:bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=32" \
> -background '#cd8000'
>
> this is color-backward from what i want [and also e.g. cannot read
> some colors like magenta as not contrasty enough]. also the font is a
> bit too small for me. idk where find a number to substitute for 32.
>
> i want orange on black for various health reasons. tried various
> obvious options on the cmd line and in .Xresources, but black turns up
> as off-white. also there is a grey border on the left that does not
> go away with -bl and similar options.
>
> i welcome any suggeestins for ther configs or other xterms. i don't
> use xterms much, but i want them accessible. with legible ansi colors
> and preferably also with no borders, and known mechanisms of
> scrollback etc. [pickyu aren't i?]
>
> fwiw i use fluxbox with no decortions and usually maximize everything
> so that enough shows. dpi = 216. large fonts.
>
>
> p.s. regarding the linux vt console:
>
> while i hope i will not have to use a linux vt for various reasons as
> the release notes suggest [x can give me better accessibility], those
> do ot work for me [i have some issue where i cannot switch them atm so
> can't use with x].
>
> the accessibility issues include the white is much much too bright.
> prefer orange on black or so. i can't always get legibly large fonts.
> i can't make the blinking cursor into a filled red block cursor
> permanently.
>
> and for me for whatever reason there are non-accessibility issues
> like getting scrollback, stopping too-fast scrollback, cursor going
> back to beginning of line randomly, and asynchronicity that puts
> notificatins after e.g. prompts.
>
> so that is why i am trying to fix an xterm to work for me, and i also
> hope that debian dialog can be made better for me.
>
> thank you all.
>
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