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It was a bit unclear to me from the thread, is there a persistent configuration option for this? I like the idea of tinting the terminal, but I also want to be able to turn it off with a global config option rather than having to type out a --background flag every invocation.


Aliasing the command as the command + your default arguments is the easiest general solution to this kind of problem. I'm not sure if there is a "systemd way" to permanently set it though.


True, I was thinking a simple environment variable or systemd configurable would be fine but I guess an alias is a good idea.


I accidentally compile color support out of st, or set xterm*colorMode:false to avoid seeing the backside of a unicorn randomly rubbed all over the terminal, on account of git and other wares being bad at their inability to not spew color codes. A sensible default would be to set no colors, in the event that the colors are unreadable (due to colorblindness, etc) or distracting, but that ship sailed. Most of my vim config on RedHat linux was disabling wacky vendorisms, and back when I used linux I did have a "special terminal" for some NVIDIA installer that mandated colors to be usable. Maybe the terminal title was set to Fisher-Price, maybe not.


Dang. I wish I had the autism to bristle at colors. Think about all the lost hours agonizing over themes! Not feeling the agonizing tension between the fact that cool-retro-term made your terminal into an awesome monochrome CRT but that it's monochrome green so your syntax highlighting is all messed up!

> back when I used linux

What do you use now? :0 BSD? Plan 9???




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