Bug#783692: systemd: systemctl output is unreadable on light background

[Juergen Stuber]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:05:20 +0200
Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> As a daytime worker I also use a white background, but the colors
> (black, green, and red) are readable very well on it.

I use a light gray background, so green becomes completely unreadable.

Apart from that I generally dislike colors yelling at me, so I prefer
them off.  For accessibility reasons all important information should
anyway be communicated in some other way.

> Do you happen to
> have a screenshot to illustrate how it looks for you? Perhaps the
> colors aren't as intended on your terminal?

See attached.

> One way to turn off the colors is to stop stdout being a tty, e. g.
> 
>   systemctl status default.target | cat

Thanks, that helped.

Jürgen

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