Totem on FC6

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:30 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Hi Tim. Sorry for the delay in replying. I hadn't tried the monitor controls, 
> (silly me) and that sorts the DVD's out ok, but then I have to reset the 
> brightness/contrast, otherwise the desktop is way over the top.
> 
> I was thinking that there might be some controls similar to those on Xawtv, 
> where you can set brightness/contrast, etc, without messing with the monitor. 

You're going to strike a problem with that approach.  The video card has
a range from 0% to 100% output, and cannot go above nor below it.  The
only way to make one or the other of the video playback versus computer
display seem brighter, is to reduce the contrast of the other.  It's a
see-saw thing.

In general, the computer screen uses black text and a white background,
that's 100% contrast (which I hate).  In general, video pictures don't
use the full gamut, so people end up winding the display controls up and
get dazzled by the computer side of things.  Or they wind down the
display to use the computer, and video playback is murky.  Or they wind
up the video playback controls and get garish playback.

The better solution is to not use 100% contrast in the computer
displays, but Fedora makes this hard to do.  You can pick different
themes, but you don't have a manual tweaker for what shade the
background colour is going to be, like Windows (and every other OS I've
tried) does.  You'd have to make your own theme to do that, and I've not
seen an editor that makes it easy to do that.

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