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in thread (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest

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?
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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
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