LEE GREEN wrote:
KM> Ah, there's a better fix for that: an extension called "Dark Reader"
Thanks for the tip Ky and my eyes thank you too.
I couldn't use Chrome without it. It works well on pretty much any site
that sets colors with CSS; not so good on plain HTML, tho there's not
much of that anymore. Also not so good on Maps sites. But you can
disable it either permanently-per-site or global-temporarily with one click.
Is there anyting available for things like notepad?
Sadly, no (and the less said about Win10 does to other office apps, the better). Win10 believes there is only BLACK or WHITE. Sometimes a dark
theme from DeviantArt works for a while, but then they update Win10 and
the borders and menubars turn white and some menus go invisible. Fact is
when they removed custom colorization in Win8 (it's still in Win7 if you disable Aero, tho that partially breaks the desktop) they completely
screwed up how elements are colorized, so only the two default options,
DARK or LIGHT, actually work 100%. And they both suck.
And this is a great deal of why I don't use Win10. For everyday it's
still XP, XP64 on the "new" frankenputer, or Server2008R2 (Win7's rich
uncle, tho I use Neige's "workstation" build) on the other "new"
frankenputer, or PCLinuxOS on the Dell that mostly does Youtube. I can
get them to look and behave as I wish, so I don't constantly want to put
my fist through the monitor.
Further, only XP64 gets along with the NVMe drives (there exists an
update and a 3rd party driver). But Win7 threw up on the NVMe drives in
ways I'd never seen before, and Win10 corrupts drives formatted with an
older version of NTFS, if they're either external or NVMe -- you won't
know so long as it runs Win10, but switch back to XP and it complains.
This is why Win10 never, ever again touches my everyday box.
Nowadays I don't dual boot, because GRUB is fragile and Windows now
rewrites the boot sector with each startup, which makes it risky.
Instead I use an iStarUSA hotswap drive bay and a stack of laptop HDs,
$5 each used off eBay, and usually with very low hours.
If you can get KDEWin to install and run, you can use a dark KDE theme
(I use Breeze Dark) and KATE as your editor. Or try installing one of
the standalone Windows builds from the Binary Factory, as KDE apps
generally have built-in options for the basic KDE color themes. Kate is completely configurable that way but easy to wind up with invisible
text, so just pick one of the defaults.
https://binary-factory.kde.org/
specifically,
https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Kate_Release_win64/
This is a programmer's editor and has all sorts of features, but it
works fine as a Notepad replacement too.
Sometimes my eyes get the flash bulb syndrome, or everything looks like I'm looking through chrome or kinda like a mirage.
Yeah, GLARE WHITE is really hard on the eyes after a while. I can't even
use a desktop or app that insists on Large Swaths of White. It hurts my
eyes and makes me want to kill the developer. This alone was a great
deal of why when I need a "modern" system, I ended up switching to linux
.... tho it took a great deal of effort to find one I really like.
(PCLinuxOS with KDE desktop and a dark theme. The Trinity desktop is
more color-flexible, but doesn't work as well.)
Yeah, I've seen that as a browser extension. I'll see if I can get that
implemented. With Opera, you have to install an extension from the Chrome ->> Web Store to get Chrome extensions. I used Opera back when it was first ->> shareware.
In that case, Dark Reader should work. It's become one of my Must Have ->extensions, especially in browsers where Prefbar doesn't work.
What is Prefbar?
Alas, it is no more in the form in which I use it, as when Firefox
decided to deprecate the way add-ons work, it broke most of the
functionality in all the downstream browsers (PaleMoon, SeaMonkey).
However I've found current SeaMonkey will import my settings, using FEBE
to export my add-ons and import them into a newer browser version (which otherwise would not install most of them).
http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/
You now have to install each component individually:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/5149765/prefbar/
I use NoScript for fine control over javascript, which makes the web a
much nicer place (and saves 90% of bandwidth use).
But there is no equivalent for the Chrome family (Opera is now Chrome
under the hood, tho if you liked old Opera, try Vivaldi).
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