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!