I work a lot (almost half the day) in OS X’s Terminal and prefer light font colors on dark background which doesn’t stress the eyes so much. However, dark background with light fonts is a no-go in presentations with a projector.

Problem: You cannot use the same colors for red, green, blue, … with light and dark backgrounds – or let’s say at least you don’t want to do this! It looks either abysmally ugly or it is completely unreadable.

Solution: A tiny little SIMBL plugin called TerminalColoreopard. Using this you can distinguish between ANSI colors and Bright ANSI colors. Exactly what I want.

Problem: With today’s release of 10.6.3 this plugin doesn’t work anymore.

Solution: Go to the Bundle in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins, and navigate into the bunlde (show package contents). Go to Contents and open the Info.plist with a text editor or the PLIST Editor (included in the OS X SDK). There you find:

<key>SIMBLTargetApplications</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>BundleIdentifier</key>
			<string>com.apple.Terminal</string>
			<key>MaxBundleVersion</key>
			<string>272</string>
			<key>MinBundleVersion</key>
			<string>272</string>
		</dict>
	</array>

Just change line 6/7 to

<key>MaxBundleVersion</key>
	<string>273</string>

and everything works fine again!