Dream Propulsion Engineer

I'm going to forget how the hell I did this later, so I'll put it here for posterity.

I wanted a red setting so that my computer moniter would be both night-adaption safe (i.e. for astronomy) and DSPS-safe (I'm supposed to increase blue light in the mornings and decrease it in the evenings). It seems like there should be a handy "red only" mode somewhere in the display settings, but if there is, I can't find it.

So I made my own on my laptop, which has a Nvidia Geforce4 420 Go graphics card running the 2.8.4.6 driver.

In "Display Properties," go to the "settings" tab and open the "advanced" menu. Go to the nView tab and select "device settings > color correction." In the blue and green channels of the "color correction" tab, get rid of all their brightness/contrast; leave the red channel at default. Save these settings (as something like "red only").

For ease of use, go back to that "nView" tab and select "Geforce4 420 Go," then the "desktop utilities" tab. Turn on the Quick Tweak icon in the taskbar. Thenceforth, you can switch between your "red only" setting and your hardware default with the click of a button.

I maintain that there must be an easier way to do this, so if anyone can enlighten me, do. Also, the red setting works on everything but my mouse cursor, which remains a glaring white arrow. I tried the black, but I think that makes the while edges even more obvious. 3D bronze is a little better, but still not great.

ETA: the red setting also doesn't affect xvid played in WMP10.

Also, I didn't get to see House last night, so don't ruin it, folks.

the hedge abides.