Can you imagine the eye strain one would get programming on a translucent screen every day? One where your always having to keep your eyes focused on semi transparent text and graphical interfaces in the foreground, and not the distracting and ever changing background, continuously shifting in parallax as you adjust your head and viewing angle. Not having my display buttressed up against a wall, or having to deal with glare and screen reflections, or even low contrast monitors in general are all things I find infuriating already.

But I guess the Sci-Fi future of ergonomics is holograms. *You must have your migraines, and you must enjoy them.

[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I hate even just having a background that isn't a solid color if any software is running. I could never use a transparent screen.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What about a semi transparent terminal window? When I started out learning linux command line interfaces, it helped having the docs just behind my shell session for reference when all I had was a tiny old laptop. But now I don't bother ricing up my DE anymore. I just want some default window tilling keybindings that work out of the box, and I'm good to go.

[–] theolodger@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I just use the i3wm scratchpad for docs

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