My eyes! My eyes!

[Christopher Svanefalk]

Dear all,

I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? I work very
much on the computer, and it does wear my eyes down after a while with
the standard color settings. Friend of mine is using green background
and stuff and says it helps, but I would rather find a full-blown theme
if possible.

Any tips?

Thanks in advance!

Chris

[Constantine]

Hi!

I had the same problem for a while. Try to follow instructions from here
http://www.infinality.net/blog/.
It really works for me.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Christopher Svanefalk <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? I work very
> much on the computer, and it does wear my eyes down after a while with
> the standard color settings. Friend of mine is using green background
> and stuff and says it helps, but I would rather find a full-blown theme
> if possible.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Chris
>
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[Christopher Svanefalk]

Ok, thanks!

On 07/01/2011 01:56 PM, Constantine wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I had the same problem for a while. Try to follow instructions from
> here http://www.infinality.net/blog/. 
> It really works for me.
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Christopher Svanefalk
> <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? I work very
> much on the computer, and it does wear my eyes down after a while with
> the standard color settings. Friend of mine is using green background
> and stuff and says it helps, but I would rather find a full-blown
> theme
> if possible.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chris
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[Mike Chambers]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 13:49 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? I work very
> much on the computer, and it does wear my eyes down after a while with
> the standard color settings. Friend of mine is using green background
> and stuff and says it helps, but I would rather find a full-blown theme
> if possible.
>
> Any tips?

Hope you find what your looking for, but one thing might try is taking
few extra breaks (to relax the eyes and brain a few), or increasing font
size just a tad and move just lil further away from the monitor.

[Peter G.]

Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes?

I know you are looking for a full easy-eye theme, but...

What I have done (in KDE), is to select any theme I like and to change 
the view background to #E0FFFF. This is a pale cyan that is supposed to 
be easy on the eyes and is roughly the colour of those old easy-eye 
paperback books that were once so popular back in the 1970s.

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/01/2011 01:56 PM, Constantine wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I had the same problem for a while. Try to follow instructions from
> here http://www.infinality.net/blog/. 
> It really works for me.
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Christopher Svanefalk
> <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes? I work very
> much on the computer, and it does wear my eyes down after a while with
> the standard color settings. Friend of mine is using green background
> and stuff and says it helps, but I would rather find a full-blown
> theme
> if possible.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chris
> --
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Hey Constantine, thanks for the link! I pulled the rpms for the font
engine, and I must say it feels much nicer reading than what it was. I
will keep looking and see what I can find.

Cheers,

Chris

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/01/2011 07:19 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> > I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> > am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes?
>
> I know you are looking for a full easy-eye theme, but...
>
> What I have done (in KDE), is to select any theme I like and to change 
> the view background to #E0FFFF. This is a pale cyan that is supposed to 
> be easy on the eyes and is roughly the colour of those old easy-eye 
> paperback books that were once so popular back in the 1970s.

That is actually really nice...I just find it problematic that it does
not affect everything I supposed it should affect. My main wish is to
have it on the surfaces I spend most of my time looking at - input
fields. When I set this color as my default color for input fields in
gnome, I find that it correctly changes the appearance of Eclipse (and
that is good enough for me...but still), but forexample in Thunderbird
(which is what I am writing this from), the background remains white.
Why oh why?

Best,

Chris

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/03/2011 12:34 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> On 07/01/2011 07:19 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> > > I just wanted to ask if someone has any advice to themes for Gnome2 (I
> > > am running F14) that are reputed to be gentle on the eyes?
> >
> > I know you are looking for a full easy-eye theme, but...
> >
> > What I have done (in KDE), is to select any theme I like and to change 
> > the view background to #E0FFFF. This is a pale cyan that is supposed to 
> > be easy on the eyes and is roughly the colour of those old easy-eye 
> > paperback books that were once so popular back in the 1970s.
>
> That is actually really nice...I just find it problematic that it does
> not affect everything I supposed it should affect. My main wish is to
> have it on the surfaces I spend most of my time looking at - input
> fields. When I set this color as my default color for input fields in
> gnome, I find that it correctly changes the appearance of Eclipse (and
> that is good enough for me...but still), but forexample in Thunderbird
> (which is what I am writing this from), the background remains white.
> Why oh why?
>
> Best,
>
> Chris

...I guess I never learn to research before writing. It appears that
some (if not all) programs with internal settings for appearance resort
primarily to their own default settings rather than global settings
(this seems to be the case with Thunderbird at least). Don't know if
this can be overidden somehow.

[JB]

Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk <at> gmail.com> writes:
> ... 
> ...I guess I never learn to research before writing. It appears that
> some (if not all) programs with internal settings for appearance resort
> primarily to their own default settings rather than global settings
> (this seems to be the case with Thunderbird at least). Don't know if
> this can be overidden somehow.

You can specify attributes of an app and its elements individually.

I would suggest you get familiar with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_resources

~/.Xresources       (older file used to be .Xdefaults)

http://xwinman.org/rc/Xresources

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/cool_unix/xresources.html

JB