Save your eyes, start using f.lux

Post by guard-of-terra » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 2:41 PM UTC

robotmay wrote: post #54

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?

    % ldd `which xflux`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf773b000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => not found
        libXext.so.6 => not found
        libX11.so.6 => not found
        libstdc++.so.6 => not found
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf76f6000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => not found
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf754e000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf773c000)

Post by roadnottaken » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 2:43 PM UTC

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?

Post by gurkendoktor » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 2:46 PM UTC

mipapage wrote: post #19

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…

I've only just installed it, and found that I need to disable it if I'm doing any serious work. However if I have some free time at night to go over pinned tabs or read some articles I leave it on and find I do get sleepier much faster, to the detriment of my open-tab count.

Post by fixed_input » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 2:48 PM UTC

Post by Semaphor » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 2:48 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #62

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…

Well that's the thing, you need to adjust, not disable it. I found out that the slow transition over an hour is essential, otherwise it's too disturbing. It didn't work on linux for some reason though. I haven't had any trouble while coding with it, or see anything well enough. When you do some work where you need to see colors properly then it's not usable of course. But it's fine for late night reading.