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Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by WaltPurvis on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:18AM (#24099791)
I too don't like lots of bright windows/monitors in my peripheral vision.

On macOS, a utility called HazeOver makes working with three monitors much nicer.

https://hazeover.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by e40 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:35AM (#24099880)
What if you routinely want to look at multiple windows? Can you easily choose which windows are not dimmed of the many on your desktop?
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Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by WaltPurvis on Sunday August 09, 2020 @02:24PM (#24101705)
You can set it up so the one active window on each monitor is not dimmed, so if you have two or three monitors you can have two or three non-dimmed windows. You can't do anything more fine-grained than that, as far as I know. You can also toggle the dimming on or off with a global hotkey.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by ahnberg on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:46AM (#24099948)
Not exactly the same thing, but I have 3 physical monitors in Windows and when I need to go into focus-mode I sometimes use an application called MultiScreenBlank[1] to dim or blank out the screens I do not want to bother me.

[1]: http://multiscreenblank.nookkin.com/

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