Yakoob on 5/6/2016 at 20:11
So I am a bit tired of staring at a huge white light bulb for half my day and want to turn my screen colors darker. I know there are "dark" themes/plugins for chrome, windows, notepad etc. but installing a separate dark theme for everything is just pretty cumbersome. Plus it often misses few little things (i.e. even with a dark theme + deluminate chrome extension the navbar appears annoying white, ugh).
Is there some tool that sort of does it holistically, a kind of monitor post-processing effect? I checked my nVidia panel but didn't see anything useful there.
Pyrian on 5/6/2016 at 22:09
Most monitors have a hardware brightness option that reduces the strength of the backlight rather than merely adjusting pixel colors.
Yakoob on 6/6/2016 at 07:52
Oh I'm already at to low but just tired of looking at big white glowy sheet.
Been using Chrome dark reader plus dark theme and is nice but will take some getting used to. Funny how used we get to color coding to subconsciously navigate websites.
Nameless Voice on 7/6/2016 at 01:39
You can theoretically override websites with user stylesheets to change the colours. Opera (I think?) even used to have built-in presets for things like "inverted" and "8-bit terminal".
You'll probably end up making most sites look awful, though.
At one point, I had made a dark theme for TTLG.
Sadly, it didn't work any more when the forum got upgraded and all the stylesheets were changed, and I never recreated it.
Yakoob on 7/6/2016 at 15:39
Yea but thats my point, I didnt want to have to do it for every program I run, just a whole screen thing at once. But now that I got dark reader, dark theme chrome, switched notepad to dark mode too, I think that's most of the stuff I need for when my eyes get tired by evening.
dj_ivocha on 8/6/2016 at 00:47
I seem to remember reading somewhere ages ago that dark/black backgrounds are not that good for your eyes either. Or maybe I made that up because it didn't look that good to ME, not really sure.
Now, grey - that's a whole other matter. Mmmmmm, grey!
Inline Image:
https://abload.de/img/ttlg9dj4f.pngGrey!
And yes, that's Windows 7. :cheeky:
Yakoob on 10/6/2016 at 03:06
yea I seen that too, apparently the black text on white is superior. but still, dark screen just feels nicer after a long day at staring. could be entirely in my head sure... but it works :p
Sulphur on 11/6/2016 at 05:49
Windows 7 modded to look like 2000/NT with Thunderbird, mIRC, and a Soundblaster console running. You've really built a time machine there.
dj_ivocha on 13/6/2016 at 23:07
Actually it's supposed to look like 98SE, just as my XP and XP x64 did before I switched to 7 six years ago! :cool:
But don't get fooled! Under this unprepossessing hood is hidden top of the line hardware... or at least it was in 2010. And I play only the latest blockbusters on it - why, just this year I played Stronghold Crusader HD and I've got an itch to play HL2 again. I think I'll wait until Episode 3 is out, though - should be around the time I switch to Win 10 AND Metro.
Nameless Voice on 15/6/2016 at 01:54
Black-on-white is harsh and white-on-black is almost as harsh.
I think light grey on very-dark grey is the most comfortable for tired eyes. I guess the kind of colours that Steam chat uses?
I still think classic Windows looks hideous. I hope it doesn't have that awful 0,128,128 desktop colour too!
