On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ralph Boland <[email protected]> wrote: > I sent this earlier but for some reason I didn't see it posted. > Apologies if others have already seen this post. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 theme I used in 9.04. But changing the theme 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
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