I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 from 9.10 and I have a problem with a visual affect. First I set my background color to white with no color gradient. The bottom right is in fact white but as you go up and to the left it becomes more gray. For the background the affect is not very strong. The problem comes when I bring up an Ubuntu window. If the window is put in the bottom quarter of the screen and the rightmost quarter of the screen (1/16th of the screen) then the window is bright and any text is quite readable. However, as you move the window up and to the left the window colors become darker and the text more difficult to read. If I bring up a terminal window and run vi and the background is black then the text of any color except white is impossible (almost invisible) to read in the top left corner and even white is unnecessarily difficult to read. I explored System/Preferences/Appearance and could find no setting that had any affect (except a theme with a light colored background helped).
Note that the problem is not my screen because if I run an application that creates its own windows (Squeak/Smalltalk) the problems do not occur in the application windows except the outermost window containing the entire application. If I run Firefox the problem occurs in all windows but the problem is not as bad except for the outermost window because thicker fonts are used. Also, the problem may have existed 9.10 but not noticed because the affect is much worse with the theme I am using in 10.04 because it is darker than the them I used in 9.04. But changing the them doesn't eliminate the problem just reduces, or exacerbates it. HOW DO I TURN THIS VISUAL AFFECT OFF???!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What confuses me the most is why would anybody want this visual affect and go through the trouble of creating it!? Help much appreciated!!!!!!! Regards, Ralph Boland _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
