Eyestrain relief possible on ubuntu?

[Erik Christiansen]

Oops! Setting firefox's edit->preferences->"fonts & colours":"text &
background" to (e.g.) yellow on grey did nothing, despite having ticked
"Always use my colours",  ...  _until_ I observed and unticked "Use
system colours". Initially I missed the inbuilt conflict.

For openoffice, format->page->background allows filling the page
background, so that leaves only the application background on high beam.
Unfortunately, that's the largest area, by default.

Looking at a theme's gtkrc file, assignments for background, foreground,
and other colour data stand out, but does gnome support setting of the
window backgrounds? At
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html, the
GTK+ Reference Manual seems to suggest we can only set the colour of
widgets:

>>>
Within a style declaration, the possible elements are:
bg[state] = color    Sets the color used for the background of most widgets.
fg[state] = color    Sets the color used for the foreground of most widgets.
base[state] = color  Sets the color used for the background of widgets
                     displaying editable text. This color is used for
                     the background of, among others, GtkText, GtkEntry,
                     GtkList, and GtkCList. 
<<<

So the window background still eludes us, it seems. :-(

When I try:

ooffice2 -draw -bg darkslategrey ~/drafts/test_drawing.odg

openoffice complains with: "/home/erik/darkslategrey doesn't exist"

before opening the drawing, with a white background. It was worth a try,
even though the ooffice2 manpage didn't explcitly mention support for
basic X options.

Hmmm ... there has to be some way.

Erik