You know how you sit down at a computer in daylight, then spend hours in front of it... then have to get up to turn the light on? No? Just me is it?
Anyway, I have this problem occasionally. I usually notice when I've been coding using the gentle projected light from the screen, then switch to a dark display for some reason.
Well. Apart from getting up and turning the light on (yeah, right), one possibility would be to write a program which displays white in unused areas of the screen, or the borders. Perhaps configurable to do this just when a certain key is held down, or will toggle between on and off.-- Loris, Jul 21 2003 EluminX lighted keyboards http://www.eluminx.com/ [phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] Keyboard light kits http://www.neontrim.com/keyboard.html [phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] USB light (for laptops) http://www.mycables...om/sku/USBLIGHT.htm [phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] A Keyboard on a Beam of Light http://www.allnetde.../03/a_keyboard.html [phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] An alternative solution http://www.youcansave.com/clapper.html [half, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] You have to turn the light on? (I though lazy spods ecommuted in the dark, naked.)-- DrCurry, Jul 21 2003 Qhen using Halfbakery, most of the screen is qhite. So qhat's needed is a USB enabled light sensor (costs about $1) qhich, qhen evening comes, checks if Halfbakery isn't up already, and if not turns on Halfbakery in full screen mode (F11).
Qait a minute... its so dark in here, I can't seem to find qhere the q key is... ah found it - wew.-- pashute, Jul 21 2003 i use the light from my monitor to see in my room quite often, actually.-- ironfroggy, Jul 26 2003 This is a cool idea, but I also tend to use the light from my monitor to see my keyboard when I'm on late. Mmmmmm...Croissant for you....ahhhhhhhhh....-- darkknight_152002, Jul 26 2003 I've had F9 hotkeyed to run a program that just fills the screen with white for years. But your "empty space" thing would be much cooler. You have my +.-- xicl, Jul 27 2003 random, halfbakery