From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 4:13:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AED337B503 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29711 invoked by uid 100); 13 Oct 2000 11:13:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14822.61005.632235.925206@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:13:17 -0500 (CDT) To: Chris Hill Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the best color in xterm background for ur eyes?? In-Reply-To: <90933525@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Hill writes: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Jeffrey Vehrs writes: > > > I'd like to know which color is the best for your eyes in xterm background? > > > Some color can strain ur eyes, but which one is good for ur eyes without any > > > straining? > > Mu. > LOL. (To anyone who has studied Zen, this is funny.) I'm glad someone got it. > > There are so many variables in this one that any answer will be wrong > > under some conditions. Off the top of my head: display technology; > > ambient lighting; the users sensitivity to colors and display > > frequency; the dominant *foreground* color. > Just to address the issue of ambient lighting, let me say this about > that. I've found that it is very useful to have a dimmer on the light in > my work room. I adjust it so that the (white-ish) monitor bezel appears > to have about the same brightness as my (gray) fvwm root window. Another issue on ambient lighting: fluorescent bad, incandescent good! If you've got fluorescent lights, adding an incandescent lamp can help a lot. In at least one location, I got headaches every evening until I put a lamp over my workspace.