A programmatic "infinite parallax wallpaper" made of a few shaped blobs (to avoid making the foregound text hard to read) could help our visual system (build for a 3d world) keep track of the scrolling text without doing smooth scrolling directly, and without the helping "visual hints" scrollbars provide.
I'd be interested to hear comments from someone who likes this and if it's difficult to read and they don't care or make other modifications to increase contrast etc
Maybe this is a problem of the background image you've selected? Or maybe you don't like it 100% of the time?
I like calming background images, especially when they are animated, and turned on and off at whill.
I have a hotkey to toggle a nature scene: I've found that it helps me concentrate when I'm thinking about a coding problem: demo in https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/11w3zzj/hyprland_...
The bottom part of the image has subtle movements (the wind effect on the grass)
The shortcut key idea is interesting.
I have nice syntax highlighting /colors / statusbar / desktop wallpaper etc but if I'm trying to write / read terminal / code, contrast is king.
What I'm kind of grokking from your comment is the text on image just doesn't really bother you
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> What I'm kind of grokking from your comment is the text on image just doesn't really bother you
It sometimes bothers me, so the default is to have it off.
But I found it can help me concentrate so I have a shortcut.
I don't know if it works by reducing the contrast of the code or by distracting my mind, but it helps me think more about the code.