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Who needs plugins. MacOS X > System Preferences > Universal Access - Seeing - Display: [x] Use grayscale
by Maci 14y ago
Who needs plugins.
MacOS X > System Preferences > Universal Access
- Seeing -
Display: [x] Use grayscale
- motdiem 14y agoThanks - this strangely makes using the computer a more soothing experience. Tried it for a few minutes, when I turned the color back on, it seemed suddenly very loud.
- navs 14y agoI don't know. I have trouble reading text on these white backgrounds. More now than ever before. This might be the dumbest question but is there a system performance benefit in using grayscale?
- tomjen3 14y agoIt is not a dumb question, but the answer is almost certainly not. It wouldn't be that difficult to design a computer to process graphics a lot faster in greyscale (you need to use one byte for the color and one for the alpha) since each pixel requires less computation. In practice if your graphic card only worked in greyscale, it wouldn't be worth the cost of development and so nobody would do it.
- mojuba 14y agoThanks, that's an interesting incentive to return to the real world for colours more often ;)
- ilija139 14y agoIt's even better with "white on black" option.
- __del__ 14y agoWho needs a computer? Cheapo Samsung TFT > Menu > Color > Color Effect > Grayscale
- sspiff 14y agoThe equivalent under Linux is available in Compiz Configuration Settings Manager (ccsm), listed as "Color filter". It includes grayscale, several forms of color blindness as well as some novelty effects.
- CrankyPants 14y agoWhat he said. Been doing this for a while.