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I tried it and the only effect is that I get sleepy/tired when it gets darker. I seem to need my harsh cold 6300K in the night ;)
Isn't that completely the point of f.lux??
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 used to have the same issue as you. F.lux emulates an undergoing sun. That doesn't happen in 20 seconds. Set the transition time to Slow. Also select the right type of lighting. If none of the types match your lighting, juggle a bit with the settings until your screen looks the same way a piece of paper would look in the same lighting. If you do that, you won't notice it's running at all. The only reason I turn it…
For the most part, though, I think it's great.
Although I may play with it ... I spend a lot more time coding.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "Linux is not Windows" in this context. In my experience, most installs of Windows these days (Windows 7 and Windows 8) are 64-bit installs. That's what is sold at Best Buy on their desktops and laptops for example. On the contrary, when a user goes to install Ubuntu, they're recommended to use 32-bit. When I'm on forums, people mention compatibility problems with 64-bit Linux and recomm…
Do you remember Firefox trying to cancel 64-bit build for Windows? Stating they have a lot of extra bugs in it? In Windows they still run 32-bit software on 64-bit OS, but a typical Linux install will have not a single 32-bit program. That's why not having a 64-bit version is pathetic.
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Create a config file in ~/.config/redshift.conf with the manual parameters you use, and redshift-gtk should work. Sample config is at http://jonls.dk/2010/10/redshift-1-6-released/ - I only need to set lat and lon to get it to run, though I also have temp-night set for my personal preference.
Thanks, it works that way. Still I have to ask: are they crazy to make their program crash silently when no config is present?
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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 would take this a step further and say it happens when any project or software gets mentioned on HN. There are always two groups of people: Those who like it, and those who don't. Those who don't are usually composed of a lot of people who don't actually care, but just thrive on contradicting people. I'd say it's more of a personality phenomenon, but acknowledge the possibility you present as well.
Surprised nobody brings up the line in the footer, which seems pretty important: > F.lux is patent pending. So they're applying for software patents on this so-far-free piece of software that has an open-source linux equivalent?
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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?
Half the people in my office leave their laptop display at about 50% brightness all day. It drives me crazy -- I always want to go over and turn it all the way up. I like my monitors BRIGHT, but others say it bothers their eyes. You might be right...
I used to use the transparant filter with compiz, just to take the edge of some glare/brightness. I even tried a sepia/monochrome filter with some success. There was an error with compiz and my system, so had to give up on it.
Then I tried a light on dark theme. As I find the terminal comfortable, but I feel you need to match it across your desktop - otherwise it's jarring. That is going from light on dark to dark on light.
It seems support for darker themes is buggy at best on Linux. To the point that recently I had to undo my dark theming just because I need regular access to one spreadsheet.
Now I have a halfway house, browser is setup for light on dark, and the rest of my desktop is greyish. Still buggy though, something as simple as Google's search box is unuasable because I've a dark font on a dark background. And so it goes on.
I might give flux a go. I've installed redshift on XFCE - but it's not currently working. Edit: okay it took like 2mins to get it up and running. Not sure what to make of it. Will see.
I've got quite used to a light on dark them though to overcome brightness issues.