Need to change display colors in Octave 5.1

[Dr.D]

TL;DR

The white background is too bright for long hours of use. The orange on while text used in the editor does not have enough contrast and is very difficult to read. Does anyone how to change these properties?

I'm running Octave 5.1 on a Win10 system. I find the white background for the editor has far too much glare for old eyes. The orange text used in the editor does not have good contrast with the white background. I could go on, but I'm sure you can see where I want to go. Does anyone know how to change the properties? (I'm fairly new to Octave, so not an old hand in this regard at all.) Thanks.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Although the Octave GUI is more useful, you should also have a CLI (Command Line Interface) that is generally installed along with the GUI. Maybe use that? It is like CMD - white text on black background.

 

[Dr.D]

Yes, I have the CLI version, but is it possible to develop a script using CLI? For most of my work, I want to develop script files that can be run repeatedly with variations on the input data.

It is the GUI version where I particularly need to change colors, but thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Found it!

Go to Edit --> Preferences. Now, you have the tabs "Editor" and "Command".

Choose Editor and scroll down. You will find "Editor Styles". Under that, choose the Octave tab. Change the colours for the "Default" option. The first set is for Text Colours, while the second set is for Background Colours.

You can change the same under the Command tab:

 

[Dr.D]

Wow! Thank you. I'll have a go at that this afternoon after I take my daughter to the airport. This should be a big help to me.