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Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by skrause »

jasonkester wrote: post #16

This thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying. Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues. The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it…

My main issue with f.lux (and the reason I don't use it) is that you can't configure it to wait until a certain time to start with the transition. When I go to bed at 11 pm, I would like f.lux to start its one hour transition at 9 pm so that I don't see that much cold light the last two hours before sleep. And in the morning it should start directly with the settings for the day, without any transition.

Tying it to sunrise/sunset is what makes it useless. In winter it starts the transition at 4 pm while I'm still working. The amount of daylight I get in winter is already low enough, using f.lux would make the winter depression even worse. I could of course trick it by settings the location to place in the Southern hemisphere, but that won't help me during spring and fall...

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by hrrsn »

fredsted wrote: post #25
jasonkester wrote: post #16

This thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying. Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues. The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it…

Whenever Flux gets mentioned, there's two groups of people: 1: Doesn't understand it, hates the "wrong" colors. Can't get used to it. 2: Appreciates the candle-like colors, says it helps them sleep in the evening or relaxes their eyes. I wonder if there's some sort of genetic difference? Maybe some people just aren't sensitive to bright light in the evening?

I've simply never been able to get used to the colours. When I bought my last MacBook I noticed that the brightness at even the lowest level is far too bright for usage just before bed. I ended up buying a 99c app on the MAS called Screen Shade that pretty much just overlays a transparent black over your entire screen. The first night I used it I thought 'well, this was pretty crap' but I've used it pretty much daily since. At night I slowly turn the brightness down and eventually switch screen shade on and adjust down as my eyes get used to it. It works amazingly well and skips the colour part. I realise that flux is probably better for my eyes, but I've never found myself in the habit of using it, whereas Screen Shade made it's way onto the new MacBook almost instantly.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

#53

Post by guard-of-terra »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #49

I've installed the ubuntu version into my kubuntu. After launching it does nothing. Which isn't strange because the /usr/bin/xflux is a 32-bit binary and the package didn't request the required libraries. I have to consider it doesn't support 64-bit linux. Come on. Linux is not Windows. Everybody and their dog already run 64-bit version. It makes no sense not to. All the software is built for 64-bit too. It's just a…

I've also installed redshift and redshift-gtk as suggested and they both crash on start.

Altough redshift doesn't if supplied with all the required parameters outright.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by robotmay »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #49

I've installed the ubuntu version into my kubuntu. After launching it does nothing. Which isn't strange because the /usr/bin/xflux is a 32-bit binary and the package didn't request the required libraries. I have to consider it doesn't support 64-bit linux. Come on. Linux is not Windows. Everybody and their dog already run 64-bit version. It makes no sense not to. All the software is built for 64-bit too. It's just a…

I have it running fine under 64-bit Ubuntu, sounds like it might be a problem with KDE. Have you tried looking around for other packages for it?

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by gurkendoktor »

skrause wrote: post #51
jasonkester wrote: post #16

This thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying. Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues. The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it…

My main issue with f.lux (and the reason I don't use it) is that you can't configure it to wait until a certain time to start with the transition. When I go to bed at 11 pm, I would like f.lux to start its one hour transition at 9 pm so that I don't see that much cold light the last two hours before sleep. And in the morning it should start directly with the settings for the day, without any transition. Tying it to s…

I didn't set it to be in the Southern Hemisphere but just moved it further West. I never notice the transition from warm-to-cold anyway (not an early riser) and it delayed the cold-to-warm transition by 2 hours.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by robotmay »

ufo wrote: post #40
icebraining wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you can use f.lux too. I prefer redshift because of its CLI nature.

Does anyone else here use f.lux on Linux? I installed the Ubuntu version but not only does the "pause/unpause" option sometimes do nothing at all but other times it simply forgets to change the colors.

I have it working reliably here (64-bit Ubuntu 12.04), though it is noticeably lacking a lot of the configuration options available in the Windows/OS X versions.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by guangnan »

I used to wear yellow glasses for the same purpose. How silly is that. =)

Flux helps a lot but the display side still sucks. I have to adjust the the brightness few times per day. Apple display have a nice brightness control but it's a mirror.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by j_s »

mtgx wrote: post #6

It's available for iOS but not for Android? I didn't even know you could do that on iOS.

There are a few similar apps for Android, you can find most linked from here:

Screen Filter https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor

I only use that Screen Filter app to shut off the soft-key backlights since last time I tried it all it did was drop a configurably-transparent black over everything on-screen.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by robotmay »

TimSchumann wrote: post #17

User for 3 Years here. Some Tips for new users to help smooth the transition. -Install during the day. -Use the Slow Transition Method -Don't go all the way down to 3400k for night time if you think it'll bug you. I personally love it.

The slow transition is the biggest difference I've found when introducing people to it. It's actually pretty hard to notice it taking effect.
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