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I just upgraded from sage version 4.8 to version 5.8. I was pleasantly surprised to see colouring of the text similar to ipython does. However, sage seems to be defaulting to colours geared towards white background and black text. I have a black background and white text. The default colour scheme is very hard to read and I can't figure out how to change it. I did find this web page (http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/add-colour-to-your-sage-session/) but following the instructions in it does not work and my sage colour scheme is always that of figure 3 on the link, but my system terminal settings have a black background and white text. How can I change the sage terminal colours to something more readable? I don't want to change my default system terminal settings.

I can type "%colors Linux" once I launch sage and it does then give me the colour scheme that I want, but I can't get the scheme to persist from session to session.

I just upgraded from sage version 4.8 to version 5.8. I was pleasantly surprised to see colouring of the text similar to ipython does. However, sage seems to be defaulting to colours geared towards white background and black text. I have a black background and white text. The default colour scheme is very hard to read and I can't figure out how to change it. I did find this web page (http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/add-colour-to-your-sage-session/) but following the instructions in it does not work and my sage colour scheme is always that of figure 3 on the link, but my system terminal settings have a black background and white text. Although I would prefer the right colour scheme, the old pure black and white would be better than what I have now. How can I change the sage terminal colours to something more readable? I don't want to change my default system terminal settings.

I can type "%colors Linux" once I launch sage and it does then give me the colour scheme that I want, but I can't get the scheme to persist from session to session.

I just upgraded from sage version 4.8 to version 5.8. I was pleasantly surprised to see colouring of the text similar to ipython does. However, sage seems to be defaulting to colours geared towards white background and black text. I have a black background and white text. The default colour scheme is very hard to read and I can't figure out how to change it. I did find this web page (http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/add-colour-to-your-sage-session/) but following the instructions in it does not work and my sage colour scheme is always that of figure 3 on the link, but my system terminal settings have a black background and white text. Although I would prefer the right colour scheme, the old pure black and white would be better than what I have now. How can I change the sage terminal colours to something more readable? I don't want to change my default system terminal settings.

I can type "%colors Linux" once I launch sage and it does then give me the colour scheme that I want, but I can't get the scheme to persist from session to session.

I just upgraded from sage version 4.8 to version 5.8. I was pleasantly surprised to see colouring of the text similar to ipython does. However, sage seems to be defaulting to colours geared towards white background and black text. I have a black background and white text. The default colour scheme is very hard to read and I can't figure out how to change it. I did find this web page (http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/add-colour-to-your-sage-session/) but following the instructions in it does not work and my sage colour scheme is always that of figure 3 on the link, but my system terminal settings have a black background and white text. Although I would prefer the right colour scheme, the old pure black and white would be better than what I have now. How can I change the sage terminal colours to something more readable? I don't want to change my default system terminal settings.

I can type "%colors Linux" once I launch sage and it does then give me the colour scheme that I want, but I can't get the scheme to persist from session to session.