Change Console's text and window colors
Jan 09, '03 09:43:16AM • Contributed by: rhoge
I can't stand black text on a white background - it was driving me nuts that the Console application's preferences did not allow selection of text color. Then I remembered Interface Builder. All you need to do is control-click on the Console.app bundle (make a backup first) and select 'View Package Contents.' In the new window that opens, you want to double click on the file Console.app -> Contents -> Resources -> English.lproj -> LogWindow.nib to open it in Interface Builder (you need the Developer Tools; search the site for interface builder and you'll see plenty of hints on how to get these).
Then select the scroll window and type command-1 to get the Property Inspector. There you can simply use the color wells to change the colors of the background and text. Save the file, restart Console, and you'll have the desired colors.
Remember to make a backup of Console.app; searching here under interface builder shows a number of other cool things you can do with IB.
[Editor's note: This will hold true for most any bundled application, of course ... and we won't be running a hint for changing colors on each and every one of them; hopefully this hint will provide the information needed to work with most any application.]
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