The Negative Mac
I was very happy when I found out that there’s a key combination that will invert the display of my Mac laptop.
If you press Cmd - Ctrl - Alt - 8, then your screen will change into an inverted state.
See the screenshot for the example.
This is most useful for example when you’ve been using your laptop for hours straight and still need to do so for several more hours, but you fear for your eyes. No worries, just press that key combination, and the display will become more easy to your eyes.
It’s also very helpful in very dim place - sometimes a place is just too dark, even the lowest brightness setting will still hurt your eyes. No longer a problem now; just press the buttons.
And when I need to do that quick SSH session in the middle of the night without waking up my significant other because of the brightness from the screen, this is just the ticket.
No, I don’t do it very often. Honestly.
Happy holiday everyone, hope you find this post useful too.
December 30th, 2007 19:16
Actually, I often do this at any store that sell Mac, just for the laugh of it. Most of the time, the salesperson panicked, shook the computer or even hit it and finally restarted the computer.
Then you’ll know how ‘good’ was the store (or the salesperson) knowledge about Mac. Heh.
December 30th, 2007 22:57
Hope the negative in mac will be positive in linux.:D. Happy old and new year mr.harry sufehmi.
January 5th, 2008 00:31
hehe.. Mac also have negative.., hope it will fix..
January 5th, 2008 01:31
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January 5th, 2008 09:31
Hmm. Har, Looks like your commenter never read your post before commenting, eh? He he he.
January 6th, 2008 13:25
And the good thing is Compiz-Fusion also have this feature
January 6th, 2008 16:22
@avianto - you’re being very naughty there
poor storekeepers, they probably thought their Macs got hit by viruses or something…. they must be panicking.
pretty crazy stuff. My wife almost thrown off the boat. A post with pictures will follow, soon ™
I didn’t know compiz-fusion can do that. Mind sharing to us how to do it?
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Gotta try that myself !
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@mr.bambang - thank you, hope you enjoyed your holiday. I went rafting / arung jeram
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@belutz - finally the Boss showed up
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… hm, looks like my compiz-fusion’s installation is rather old, let’r try upgrading it first.
January 7th, 2008 01:14
First you have to enable the “Negative” plugin under Accessibility. Compiz-Fusion has two mode for Negative effect, first is active application window only by pressing Super+N by default and second is to make the whole screen Negative by pressing Super+M by default.
While the whole screen is negative, you can also make an active application window to be not negative.
Linux desktop is getting more user friendly
By the way, since I’m also a mac user now, is there a way to make an application window to be always on top in MacOS X?
January 8th, 2008 07:46
salam, mas.
saya dari malaysia.
kebetulan saya diarah membuat projek bertajuk ‘performance tuning using vmware’. terjumpa blog mas ini. terima kasih utk post sebelum ini berkenaan vmware, sangat membantu. cuma sekarang saya masih belum faham berkenaan performance tuning.
salam kenal,
terima kasih=)
January 14th, 2008 13:51
Mantep Mantep mas… Tips yang Mengegarkan
January 15th, 2008 18:40
trims tipsnya pak dan bisa saya coba karena baru “dikasih” macbook pro..
mudah2an bisa ditambahkan semacam undocumented mac command seperti dulu pak harry pernah tulis undocumented ms dos
January 15th, 2008 19:02
itu menunya ada di System Preferences –> Universal Access
January 17th, 2008 13:51
kak sufehmi…
i wanna ask…
how to go back from the inverted one?
do we press the same keys
ctrl plus command plus alt plus 8 ?
thank you !
January 17th, 2008 13:55
@Tasniem - yes, that’s correct — just press the same keys again, and it’d revert back to normal.
January 17th, 2008 14:06
@Tasniem - oh by the way; enjoy your new Mac
January 17th, 2008 14:08
@Nissa - you’re most welcome. Let us know if you have further questions on VMware.
February 10th, 2008 03:42
thank you for this info. I let my 20 month old daughter play on my mac laptop once in awhile…and she does some amazing stuff…including this key stroke combination.
I went running around preferences for 20 minutes before deciding I should scour the net a little. found this in 10 seconds….should have started here.
February 12th, 2008 08:33
@Howe - wait until she ask for her own Mac
she’ll surpass you in no time.
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Glad to be of help !