Grayscale Xorg output

Nathan England nathan at paysonlinux.org
Wed May 25 10:07:23 MST 2011


I might give it a try just to play and see. Thank you for the idea!

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> The forum thread I saw was from a guy who needed this and had tried all the
> themes without finding what he needed.  Besides, I think themes only deal
> with windows elements, not content.
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Dennis Kibbe <dennisk at mesacc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Would one of the high-contrast themes work? Also, compiz has a shortcut
>> key to reverse the video on a window -- Windows key + N. However, that seems
>> to be gone from Unity.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
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>> *Subject: *Re: Grayscale Xorg output
>>
>>
>> If you use, or start using, compiz there is a color filter plugin that
>> apparently lets you display in grayscale.  The forum entry I saw gave no
>> more detail than that.
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to have X output only a grayscale color palette?
>>>
>>> I was watching a show with a guy who is completely color blind and I
>>> wondered what X would look like with a high quality grayscale color scheme.
>>> I can spend hours changing all my colors and window themes and blah blah
>>> blah, but it seemed like something X or an X driver might be able to do
>>> easily...
>>>
>>> Any thoughts? I'm using an Intel integrated graphics driver. i915.
>>>
>>> Nathan England
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valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to
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