[Conkeror] white-on-black colour schemes

[A.W.]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: trentbuck at gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
> To: conkeror at mozdev.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:58:09 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Conkeror] white-on-black colour schemes
>
>> Subject: Re: Feature request/question
>
> This subject is horribly vague.
>
You are correct. I have a bad habit of not proofreading my subjects. I
should do something about that.
> A.W. <gzeusmants at gmail.com> writes:
>> Is it possible to make text input boxes white-on-black as opposed to
>> black on white?
>
> I don't know about conkeror specifically, but I've noticed other gecko
> browsers get their form widget colour schemes from GTK,
> i.e. ~/.gtkrc-2.0.  Here's the white-on-black gtkrc I use:
>
>    http://cyber.com.au/~twb/Preferences/.gtkrc-2.0
>
That works fantastically.
Invisible scrollbars, but it's not like I'm using them alot.
Danke Schoen(no umlauts on this 'board)
ありがとうとございました
Thank ya much.
> I adopted midori as one of my browsers, and it can't do white-on-black
> in any sensible fashion (you have to craft user CSS by hand, and that
> CSS then fights page authors' CSS).
>
> Therefore I adopted a generic approach of inverting the entire X
> display.  To achieve this I reverse the gamma ramp using this simple C
> script (delete the shebang line to compile with cc):
>
>    http://cyber.com.au/~twb/Preferences/.bin/xdark
>
> This conveniently *doesn't* requiring a compositing WM, and works for
> PDF and browser canvasses.  The down side is that images are inverted,
> so I typically toggle it off when I look at photographs.
>
That is not an option for me, sadly.
I always have anime playing in a little frame.
Wait, I use SMplayer. mplayer has an invert option...
I'll star this email for later review.
>> I'd ask how to change the default display colors, but I KNOW that
>> would muck up websites that aren't explicit but should be.
>
> It certainly leads to loss of information when you discard author CSS
> and force white-on-black at the CSS level; for example, zebra striping
> in tables.
>
Good point.