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Embarrassingly dumb question: if you’re one of the few users who don’t run a dark background terminal … how well do these TUI render (in a light background)?
by alberth 9mo ago
Embarrassingly dumb question: if you’re one of the few users who don’t run a dark background terminal … how well do these TUI render (in a light background)?
- deepspace 9mo agoNot a dumb question at all. I grew up using actual green screen terminals, and the advent of high-resolution colour monitors and applications with dark text on a white background felt like a blessing. I truly do not understand the regression to dark mode. It's eyestrain hell for me. Unfortunately, I was unable to test in my light-background terminal, since the application crashes on startup.
- alanbernstein 9mo agoIf I'm working in a dark room, then light mode is eye strain hell. With dark mode, the minimum brightness I can achieve is about 100x lower than with light mode.
- zozbot234 9mo agoOLED monitors will bring green screen terminals back in style quite soon (with occasional orange and red highlights for that Hollywood haxx0r UX effect)
- zaochen1224 9mo agoThe worst is when you're in dark mode and suddenly open a website or PDF that's pure white. Instant flashbang.
- hxugufjfjf 9mo agoI thank Apple every day for adding dark mode to the native PDF viewer for this exact reason.
- oneeyedpigeon 9mo agoMy personal experience is mixed. Half the time, I get something usable, the other half I get something that prints light yellow on slightly-darker yellow or highlights an item with a dark blue background and dark green text. I'm sure there's something I can tweak in my terminal app to fix this, but it's easier to just avoid those apps.