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Fractal

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From: Paris

Registered: 2009-09-01

Posts: 38

How to display the screen in negative?

Hi,
Is it possible to easily toggle the display of the screen in negative?
Someone showed to me that with a Mac he can do that with one shortcut and now I’m jealous, I want the same on my Arch

My graphics card is a Nvidia (proprietary driver) and I use LXDE with OpenBox, but I don’t really know at which level I have to search.

Thank you

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lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 1,087

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Re: How to display the screen in negative?

Most of the more popular browsers have extensions that will do that for you on specific web pages with the click of a button, but as for doing it with the complete desktop and all applications I do not know.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: How to display the screen in negative?

The option is often called reverse video e.g. urxvt has it

       -rv|+rv
           Turn on/off simulated reverse video; resource reverseVideo.

tacticalbread

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From: Bay Area, CA

Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 127

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Re: How to display the screen in negative?

I'm pretty sure Compiz / Compiz-fusion has got an option to do that.

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Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: How to display the screen in negative?

I'm pretty sure Compiz / Compiz-fusion has got an option to do that.

Indeed it does. For either an individual window or the entire desktop, switchable with keyboard shortcuts.

the sad clown

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From: 192.168.0.X

Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 837

Re: How to display the screen in negative?

You might be able to do this with one of the fancier windows managers (compiz perhaps).
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls= … =&aql=&oq=

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