[guide-user] avoiding white spaces in toolbar with WIN10

[Patrick Maloney]

Hi Bernd,

Excellent! Rubylith can be hard to find. I got some a few years ago, 
enough for my laptop screen. Since then, I've only seen it listed in the 
US, and the postage costs are ridiculous.

Cheers,

Patrick

On 02/04/2020 14:51, Bernd Klemt wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> I searched for Rubylith here in Germany. No luck, all are only selling 10m or 50m
> rolls. But I found a company selling all kind of plastics. They have Plexiglas
> (arcrylic glas), transparent and colored dark red with a width of 3 mm. And the
> best is: they cut sheets to your wishes! I ordered 3 pieces for different laptops
> and payed a little more than 20,- EUR including cutting, shipping and handling. A
> few hours ago I got them. And I must say I'm excited. The optical quality is so
> good, that I can read everything on a full HD 14" monitor. OK, a red font suffers
> from low contrast ...
>
> You find its website here: <wwwmodulor.de>
>
> The items I bought were
> <https://www.modulor.de/plexiglas-gs-farbig-3-mm-3-0x-max-1500x-2000mm-dunkelrot-t
> ransparent-3c01.html>
>
> Am 23 Mar 2020 um 12:46 hat Patrick Maloney geschrieben:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Even a completely black computer screen (still turned on) is way too bright
>> to maintain night vision. Ok if you're an imager, but disastrous if you're
>> a visual observer.
>>
>> 'Night vision modes' on astronomy software are utterly useless. The only
>> real solution is to place a red filter over the screen, preferably of
>> rubylith, which lets through red light only.
>>
>> Rubylith isn't cheap, but it is an excellent filter, and is available
>> online. There may be other similar products, but this is the only one I
>> know.
>>
>> Stay safe,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, 12:40 , <portaball at tutanota.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have a very similar question. Does anyone know a means to change the
>>> background color of the toolbar ?
>>> If I use the red mode, I feel it's still to bright on my laptop.
>>> I have found a workaround with fullscreen mode, see:
>>> https://www.projectpluto.com/update8b.htm#full_screen (22 september
>>> 2002), but there must be a bug: When I am using the shortcut a second time
>>> (to get the toolbar back), it disappears !
>>> Rudi
>>> (chasseurdegalaxies)
>>>
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>>> 23 mars 2020 à 10:31 de bernd.klemt at hs-bochum.de:
>>>
>>> Hello Luc, and Arild,
>>>
>>> thanks for your fast responses. Your answers worked! I hope that my WIN10
>>> notebook will now not glare into my eyes when using at the telescope.
>>> These
>>> spaces were white even when set Guide to "red stars".
>>>
>>> In times of WIN XP you could change the color of every display element
>>> seperately, but that seems to be gone :-((
>>>
>>> Clear skies
>>> Bernd
>>>
>>> Am 23 Mar 2020 um 9:39 hat Luc Desamore geschrieben:
>>>
>>> Hello Berndt
>>>
>>> It is a registry entry
>>>
>>> in
>>>
>>> Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
>>> NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
>>>
>>> Create a new string value
>>>
>>> value name : C:\guide9\guide9.exe /(if your program is located there
>>> otherwise change the path)/
>>>
>>> value data : DISABLETHEMES
>>>
>>> Luc
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2020-03-23 09:19, Bernd Klemt wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I know that there was a trick to avoid the white spaces in the GUIDE9
>>> toolbar
>>>> with WIN10. But I can't remember how to do It. Was it a registry entry or
>>>> something else?
>>>>
>>>> Please give me an advice or a link to a former mail, where the solution
>>> was
>>>> presented. In times of Covid19 home office I can't access my mail
>>> archive at my
>>>> office.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance, clear skies and stay healthy
>>>> Bernd
> Clear skies
> Bernd
> Bernd Klemt
> Sternwarte Herne
>
> MPC  (A18)
> www.sternwarte-herne.de
>
>
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