Re: (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest

I've found that colors make a big difference in eye strain. I like a black backgound, and a burnt orange text. The white background really is hard on the eyes. You can set your editor , browser, and desktop colors... I view PM with a black background, burnt orange text, red/blue links. A black background tends to obscure moire patterns and flicker, and you can stare at it for hours with no strain. Use a big font too.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re^2: (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest by jcc (Sexton) on Apr 21, 2006 at 00:35 UTC
I can't remember where, but someone recommended a wheat background with black text (xterm). It's a great combo. I'll take this opportunity to shamelessly plug this node where I use a brightness formula to generate fun xterms.	[reply]
Re^2: (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Apr 21, 2006 at 18:29 UTC
I have to say I agree here. The (pseudo?)scientific explanation is that white actually represents a pixel that is 'on,' therefore emitting radiation that hits your eyes. Thus the ideal is a black background. I do this for all my Xwindows stuff, but have yet to find a way to do it for web pages. I'd love if PM were green text on a black background! How do you change the color scheme?	[reply]
Re^3: (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest by zentara (Cardinal) on Apr 21, 2006 at 19:16 UTC
Well in Mozilla( I'm sure others are similar), you go to Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Colors. It has little color boxes that you click, to select the various colors, BUT you must check the box "Use my chosen colors, ignoring the default web page colors". The one thing I noticed as a "glitch" in the black background, is that it can partially obscure dropdown menus on some sites that use alot of "javascript menus". But you can always switch the checkbox mentioned above, to naviagte such sites. 99% of the sites are fine. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^3: (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest by tfrayner (Curate) on Apr 23, 2006 at 09:24 UTC
The ability to change your PM Display Settings may be of interest here; there are several predefined themes for PM, including green on black (Night Shift Theme). There is also the option of using your own CSS, although I've not actually experimented with that much. Tim	[reply]