From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Colors and other fun
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7359f0490706270807ia34da8bl408c6042474637b4@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:30:33 -0400
Message-Id: <20070628173109.87488C71C3@mail.cse.psu.edu>
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For years I thought I had an idiosyncratic visual problem with
mostly-white or mostly-light displays--headaches, loss of mental
focus, etc.  I used X's (horrible) preference "system" to set my
world to black backgrounds.  I had trouble using rio for long
periods of time and thought about building my own with different
colors.

Now it turns out that the "display brightness" problem I had was
limited to CRT's, so maybe it was a flicker artifact.  Due to
years of habit I prefer dark-background displays, but I'm also
giving rio's color scheme a chance to convert me.

Dave Eckhardt