[Conkeror] white-on-black colour schemes

[Trent W. Buck]

A.W. <gzeusmants at gmail.com> writes:
>> 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
>>
> Final question/problem. Viewing source on a web page still blasts me
> with blinding whiteness

Can't help there; I use w3m-el for "view source" functionality.
Probably you can configure Conkeror to view source in emacsclient,
rather than using a view-source: URL?

> second only to my gmail which I am addicted to.

You can use IMAP or POP to access gmail with a conventional MUA (which
can be white-on-black).  JFGI for details.

> No, it's not all that bad, but it's one more thing that breaks my
> concentration, and does indeed hurt my eyes...

As someone said on the Debian BTS: "would you stare at a light bulb for
eight hours a day?  That's what a black-on-white backlit LCD amounts
to."