OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by zpoley » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

OS X Day and Night Terminals
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Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by ammmir » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 7:49 PM UTC

i've recently started using f.lux [1], which adjusts the color temperature of the screen based on the time. after a night of coding, i've noticed i've been able to fall asleep more quickly, probably since my eyes adjust to the ambient warm light in the room while coding.

[1] http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by hallowtech » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 8:03 PM UTC

It would be neat if you could use the MacBook light sensor that turns on the keyboard lights to trigger switching terminal themes

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by tobylane » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

1. Needs to be automated (look up sunset time like Instapaper) 2. Needs to be part of every browser (for the blank page).

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by pluies » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 8:30 PM UTC

What about Nocturne (from the Quicksilver guys: http://www.blacktree.com/ )?

Or even simpler, ctrl-alt-cmd-8?

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by sorbus » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 8:38 PM UTC

hallowtech wrote: post #3

It would be neat if you could use the MacBook light sensor that turns on the keyboard lights to trigger switching terminal themes

There's a processing library for getting information from it[1], so there's certainly the possibility of using the sensor to automatically adjust the theme. I would try to write something to do that myself, but I don't have a Mac.

[1] http://projects.formatlos.de/ambientlightsensor/

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 8:52 PM UTC

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Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by tobylane » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 9:57 PM UTC

hallowtech wrote: post #3

It would be neat if you could use the MacBook light sensor that turns on the keyboard lights to trigger switching terminal themes

How would that work? Surely the brightness of the screen (which I believe the sensor can see as it is at the top of the keyboard) is more than the sunlight. Maybe using the gyroscope/anti-drop, someone made a app-switcher that worked that way.

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by adsr » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

tobylane wrote: post #8

hallowtech wrote: post #3

It would be neat if you could use the MacBook light sensor that turns on the keyboard lights to trigger switching terminal themes

How would that work? Surely the brightness of the screen (which I believe the sensor can see as it is at the top of the keyboard) is more than the sunlight. Maybe using the gyroscope/anti-drop, someone made a app-switcher that worked that way.

I don't think that would be a problem, if that was the case, the sensor would not work for it's original purpose either.

Re: OS X Day and Night Terminals

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Post by tedkalaw » Sun, Apr 24, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

This is interesting. I've come to love Solarized, and switch between the two depending on day and night.

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

In iTerm2 I mapped the lighter theme to CTRL-CMD-L and the dark theme to CTRL-CMD-D. I am sure there is a quick way to change the default theme as well, though I haven't really tried too hard.