On Saturday, 30 April 2022 14:52:48 EDT Hans Unzner wrote:
> Am 30.04.22 um 20:07 schrieb gene heskett:
> > On Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:11:44 EDT Hans Unzner wrote:
> >> Am 30.04.22 um 14:58 schrieb gene heskett:
> >>> Greeting all;
> >>>
> >>> One of the things that seems to be getting more pronounced as my
> >>> eyes
> >>> age, is the "dimming" of such as the halmeter box when It doesn't
> >>> have
> >>> "focus". We start a halmeter to watch things progress and making it
> >>> hard to read is not at all that helpfull.
> >>>
> >>> Can this "dimming" effect when it doesn't have focus be restricted
> >>> to
> >>> the boxes borders, leaving nice clear full contrast text in its
> >>> contents?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> >>
> >> You can achieve this if you insert following (in case you have a
> >> light
> >> theme, otherwise use white)
> >>
> >> label:backdrop {
> >>
> >> color: black;
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> into
> >>
> >> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
> >> (create this fi> le if not existng)
> >
> > That was quick, didn't even have time to refill the empty coffee pot,
> > thank you Hans.
> >
> > Had to create the file, but that does exactly what I wanted. Is there
> > a similar way to make the halmeter text larger so that it can be
> > read at a greater distance? The true/false gets lost in that size of
> > box, and when trouleshooting a funkity home switch on my b axis, six
> > feet away watching a mirror watching he monitor, was also difficult
> > to see. There's plenty of room to double the height of the text.
>
> You can adjust a lot with CSS (see
> https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/css-properties.html#font-properties), but
> this will affect the whole system.
> You can add the lines
> label {
> font-size: 20;
> }
> but this would increase the size of all labels in Gtk3 applications
> system-wide so I wouldn't recommend that.
Neither would I.
> For example this will lead to the fact that Gmoccapy wouldn't fit any
> longer in a 1024x768 screen.
True, Hans, but thats a rather low res screen given the modern led
backlit monitors that run on under 20 watts of power that are available
today.
They are at least 1920x1080, and can be had sharper than that if you have
a few more sheckles to spend.
I would think the power bill alone to run an older, dimmer crt monitor
that runs around 200-300 watts to power it, would have been cause for
recycling it long ago when the new stuff goes on sale for under $100 USD.
The 1920x I use on the rpi4 to run my Sheldon Lathe draws 11 watts. Even
CCFL backlit stuff draws more power.
Putting on my Certified Electronics Technician hat, IMO People dragging
their feet on this are being penny wise, and pound foolish when good,
very low power, high res monitors can be on the front deck in 2 days.
> That could be well done in the halmeter sources but I think the
> majority of users want to kepp the space saving small text, so you
> have to carry around your custom version all the time...
>
> /Hans
>
Thanks Hans.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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