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I need some help with the tkremind calendar display in Fedora-31. Perhaps someone else is familiar with it and can offer a solution or an alternative to tkremind. All I need is a calendar format similar to a monthly paper calendar that I can list appointments on some days, Sometimes a medical appointment might be a year in the future. I don't want pop up displays for those days, just something that looks like an old paper calendar that might have hung on the wall.
I sent the following request to the "remind" mail list and got no response so now here. I've been using this with Fedora over a number of releases and it has always worked through Fedora-29, on several different computers. Presently I an seeing this problem on two Fedora-31 xfce workstations. It displays as I want it for a fraction of a second and then reverts to black on white which does not work for me.
I need to change the color of the month calendar display to present a white foreground on a black background to accommodate my vision problems. I have done this for some time with the following /home/bobg/.xresources:
! Reloads .Xresources file ! $ xrdb ~/.Xresources ! ! Shows contents of all properties ! $ xrdb -query ! ! Font settings extras Xft.dpi: 120 Xft.antialias: true Xft.hinting: true Xft.rgba: rgb Xft.autohint: false Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.lcdfilter: lcdfilter ! ! /usr/local/bin/tkremind cooperation tkremind*Background: #000000 tkremind*Foreground: #ffffff tkremind*activeBackground: #000000 tkremind*activeForeground: #ffffff tkremind*highlightBackground: #00ff00 tkremind*selectBackground: #000000 tkremind*selectForeground: #ffffff !
Note: I did not create this it was suggested to me by Poma, pomidorabelisima@gmail.com in response to a request for help on the Fedora list.
This has done what I need until Fedora-31, now the white text on a black background calendar comes on for a few milliseconds and reverts to black text on a white background.
Can this be fixed or perhaps there is a better method for doing it?
Any help in this will be appreciated,
Bob
On 2019-11-28 05:23, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Any help in this will be appreciated,
Since you are a T-Bird user, have you considered using the supplied calendar?
You can go to Preferences--->Calendar and select "Optimize colors for accessibility" to get a dark background.
On 2019-11-27 17:47, Ed Greshko wrote:
Since you are a T-Bird user, have you considered using the supplied calendar?
You can go to Preferences--->Calendar and select "Optimize colors for accessibility" to get a dark background.
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/ must admit I haven't tried it, on the few occasions before I removed it it looked like more than I wanted, but perhaps I need to investigate it. As I said all I want is a simple calendar display for each month of the year. I'll have to see what it can do ,,,/
/Thanks for the suggestion,/
On 2019-11-28 06:59, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 2019-11-27 17:47, Ed Greshko wrote:
Since you are a T-Bird user, have you considered using the supplied calendar?
You can go to Preferences--->Calendar and select "Optimize colors for accessibility" to get a dark background.
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/ must admit I haven't tried it, on the few occasions before I removed it it looked like more than I wanted, but perhaps I need to investigate it. As I said all I want is a simple calendar display for each month of the year. I'll have to see what it can do ,,,/
/Thanks for the suggestion,/
To be clear. I'm not talking about the "lightning" add-on to T-Bird. I'm talking about the calendar which comes native to T-Bird.
On 2019-11-27 18:54, Ed Greshko wrote:
To be clear. I'm not talking about the "lightning" add-on to T-Bird. I'm talking about the calendar which comes native to T-Bird.
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Hmm, I googled Lightning, that's the only one I knew of, so there is something else? I'll look for that tomorrow ...
Also I have an updated Fedora-30 in the other workstation and tkremind displays the white on black calendar in it. I really need that extreme contrast to function, it's not just "I like it." With conventional black text on white I struggle to read text with a hand magnifier on a large image on a 27 inch screen.
On 2019-11-28 09:25, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Hmm, I googled Lightning, that's the only one I knew of, so there is something else?
Ooopss, sorry. It is Lightning. I was thinking of something else.
Version 68.2.2 is the latest version.
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