Fences brighter at the bottom of the screen

There is no setting to do what you describe seeing.  Can you post a screenshot?

If you drag your taskbar from the bottom of the screen over to the side, making it a vertical taskbar, is the top of the taskbar too dark and the bottom too light?

It sounds to me more like your monitor/screen is going.

(You can go out today and buy a new monitor and it'll do that.  I'm looking at one   )

How do I post a screenshot?

I see an image insert button but it wants a URL.

My taskbar is black and the color does not change from top to bottom when I drag it to the side as you suggest.

It's more visible with a midrange color as opposed to an extremely light or dark taskbar.

Of course I don't know if that's what your issue is, but it does sound like my monitor.

Simple, I know, but try moving a fence to the bottom of the screen, and tilt the screen, or change your angle of view.

I have had monitors where everything was darker/brighter at the bottom.

Yup. Some will, especially if it's not an IPS screen.

'Correct' viewing angle for a computer monitor [or TV] is for your eyeline to be slightly above the centerline of the screen as it reduces neck and eyestrain.

If you're dramatically beyond 'the norm' with your ergonomics there can be a colour shift in the screen, however that has nothing to do with Fences at all and is neither a feature nor a fault of Fences.

There are various online sites with methods or test patterns to set a monitor correctly [or at least determine if it's age/use is such that it's time for a new one].

Check there has been no recent [inadvertent] Video Driver update that has not borked your system.

Ya it was an extra bonus of my TN panel - a universe of constant vertical gradient.

I know how to take a screen shot ... however, there is no attachment button on the post editor.  As I mentioned above, the insert image button only allows a URL.

The way to do it is to upload the screenshot to an image hosting site. Then you have a url to post.

I use Dropbox. But there is also Imageshack, Photoshack, and tinypic.

Thanks.

The screen shot is at 

http://tinypic.com/r/2rhtclu/9

Am I seeing things ?

Do the fences seem darker at the top ?

Actually, they all look the same to me. Which would be normal. Because the screenshot will not necessarily show what you actually see, due to viewing angle.

Dit you try what I said? Tilt the monitor. Or stand up and look at the monitor from a different angle.

The screenshot will not take viewing angle into consideration.

You're right.

If I stand up and look down at the monitor, the colors don't change from top to bottom.

I'm very ergonomic minded and have my monitors dead center to my eyes at a slight downward tilt.

So now that I know that there's nothing I can do about it, I'll just deal with it.

Thanks for helping me to figure that out.

Good. So, not a Fences thing, but a you thing...lol.

Glad to help.  

This is a problem monitors using TN Film technology suffer from.  IPS and VA based screens do not have the same problem with different angles making colours look different.

When buying a monitor look at the viewing angles.  If it says 160/170 degrees it will be TN Film.  178 or higher will be IPS/VA.  TN Film screens also tend to have a 1ms response time vs the 4/5+ for the other technologies (but at a cost of colour quality)

Thanks for that info!

I will make a note of that for future monitor purchases.