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Authored by: virga42 on Dec 05, '02 09:59:22AM

You can accomplish this by mashing ctrl-option-cmd-8 on your keyboard. It is an accessibility feature. Reading white text on a black background helps some who have trouble seeing.



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No, you can't...
Authored by: robg on Dec 05, '02 10:08:16AM
I thought so myself at first as well, but it's NOT the same thing. White on black is monochrome. This is full color, just reversed polarity color. So white does become black, but red doesn't become black, etc.

Try it out if you don't believe me -- first invoke Universal Access, memorize the look, then try this hack. They are very different.

-rob.

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Yes, you can...
Authored by: Malleus on Dec 05, '02 02:26:57PM

If you go to Universal Access and change it to black on white, at first it is just in greyscale. However, if you then go to the Displays system pref and change the colors to thousands or millians (but not 256), the colors will be in reveresed polarity.

I think I can file this under the "This doesn't seem remotely useful, but it is still a sweet trick" group.



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