Ok i work on the computer 9 hours a day and its been fine for years but ive changed offices and my office is very bright, there is nothing i can do to change the room brightness and the increased eyestrain is getting unbearable so ive been looking for a way to make things eaiser on my eyes with the computer itself. I found a text editor called dark room which is awesome retro black and green, its full screen and its very easy on the eyes so i was thinking is there any program or driver i could use to make windows black and green only? I looked for themes and the closest i could get to what i want is an apple IIe theme, but parts of windows still show up white and icons and etc. Very ugly depending on what your running (office, quickbooks, firefox) so thats pretty much unusable. I have searched on the internet for monochrome display drivers and graphical tweak programs and the results are very underwhelming, so i decided to post on here. Is there any way i can do this short of buying an old apple crt? if that would even connect? lol! THANKS!
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A lot of programs will force a white background, but then adhere to your system font color (white)…so it’s invisible.
Or…a default black background with forced black text…invisible again….
I’ve seen this issue in major programs from Microsoft & other big names – it’s a really annoying usability issue, and I complain about it every chance I get, hehe.
What I do, is set a dark-ish grey background…something where both white text and black text will be visible, but it doesn’t burn my eyes out staring at the screen.
Really annoying, but honestly, trying to do this on linux is 10 times worse, and Mac OS/X won’t even let you specify a different background/foreground color…so even tho it sucks sometimes, Windows still supports this best.
Unless of course, you want to go shell-only and forget the GUI…real men live on the command line anyway, hehehe.