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

[Josh Triplett]

On Sat, 2 May 2015 09:51:36 +0200 Juergen Stuber <juergen at jstuber.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 May 2015 02:41:19 +0200
> md at Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> > On Apr 29, Juergen Stuber <juergen at jstuber.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I use a light gray background, so green becomes completely
> > > unreadable.
> > I checked the attached image and I can read it well on a "business" 
> > matte LCD.
> > Maybe the settings for your screen should be tuned?
> > Are your eyesight and colors perception OK?
> 
> This is a T420s, and my eyes are as good as can be expected at my age,
> color vision included (not everybody will be as fortunate).
> 
> And no, I won't start tuning my screen just to read messages of
> one misbehaving software.

While I agree that your screen doesn't need tuning, systemd isn't alone
here; the default ls colors (enabled by default these days) use that
same green for executable files, and the same red for archive files or
broken symlinks.  This is not a systemd-specific issue; quite a few
terminal programs use color.

- Josh Triplett