On 2018-07-19, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you >> > fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three >> > wildly different code bases) >> >> Good call, sir! Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch, >> the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator) >> had changed to gnome-terminal. A bit of web searching came up with the >> exo-preferred-application command, which let me re-configure the default >> terminal emulator to Xfce Terminal. All is well again. Thanks! >> >> (Do the Gnome people like pastels?) > > As far as I can tell, the guiding principle of the GNOME project > these days is "I like it, so that's what you should use." > > Only I don't like it. > > Luckily, we live in a world full of choices, and the decision to > use a particular desktop environment (or not) is reasonably easy > to change. > > I like XFCE, urxvt, and vim and mutt and slrn. Other people can > have different preferences, and that's just fine. > > -dsr- > >
It's also easy to change the colour palette used by gnome-terminal. Even the GNOME project offers choices.
