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Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by criley »

knightni wrote: post #42
criley wrote: post #7

As long as seeing correct color is not important to you. I'm the kind of person who can immediately tell when an LCD is not at native resolution and what temperature the color is set at, so the strong yellow tint of f.lux was unbearable. If your eyes hurt at night, just alter your brightness contrast, or write a script to do that instead of messing with color!

Why not mess with colour? I have no need to see the 'correct' colour, if it's less comfortable to me. I actually leave my LCDs at a redder tint most of the time now, as I find it more comfortable. This is particularly useful as most desktop LCDs won't adjust their brightness down far enough for me. Laptops are better, since they actually bother to adjust the power of their backlight.

I prefaced my post with "as long as color isn't important to you".

Since it clearly isn't to you, there's no reason not to mess with it!

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by Shank »

e40 wrote: post #137
herf wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(author of f.lux here) Color adaptation actually takes about 2 minutes, and we transition by default in 20 seconds (some video cards use a ton of CPU during the transition time, so we pushed it a bit faster.) The slow transition option should help some people. Also a badly-calibrated monitor can give a very undesirable result color-wise, but a white page should look like your room lighting if we do things right.

I wish there was something in between 20s and 60m. When I'm doing image editing, I don't want f.lux messing with colors, but I might not notice if I have it on 60m.... 2m would be better for me than 20s.

There's a button that completely disables it for color sensitive work. That's the best option.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by chc »

herf wrote: post #126
Osmium wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure it's a genetic difference. I used to be in camp 1, despite trying Flux many times, but now I'm firmly in camp 2. The change for me was due to a change in working environment, and I imagine that's the difference for a lot of people: if you're in a brightly lit room anyway, then the colours becoming weird is just going to be irritating. If you're in a room with a lot of natural lighting, or trying to work…

f.lux does look wrong in a blue-rich lighting environment (like an office building after dark.) It looks ok in most people's homes.

You should set f.lux to match your ambient lighting. If the whites on your screen look more orange than the whites in your room, then you have it set too warm (no benefit from that anyway!).

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by jeremyarussell »

I've been rather content just turning my brightness down when I turn my lights off. That said I keep my room flooded with light so as to not strain my eyes trying to look at a screen or read in the dark. I kind of want to give this a shot though as my eyes are very sensitive to light and changes in light levels.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by graeme »

tptacek wrote: post #159

Two (related) things about f.lux from my experience: 1. With only one exception I can think of, every instance of insomnia I've had in the last several years I can trace to not having f.lux enabled for some reason. 2. The reason that happens is that I often won't notice if f.lux dies for some reason, because I am so thoroughly used to it now. I was having real sleep trouble several years ago, and f.lux is part of a b…

For anyone who have tried F.lux, has insomnia, and HASN'T gotten this effect: install it on your phone too.

I had onset insomnia: took me about an hour to fall asleep each night. I jailbroke my iPhone just to install f.lux.

Now I don't have onset insomnia.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by milhouse31 »

For all my fellow f.lux windows fan, I created a little app (in Delphi) : Reflux.

You can download it here (There is also another package with source) https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=CD51CF0B626581E!134&#3...

Basically, you can configure it to kill f.lux (and thus get your precious color back) when certain applications are executed. When all the "killer" applications are closed, f.lux is restarted automatically. It's barebone (there is no GUI) and I tried to keep it light (CPU & memory wise)

Reflux quick readme :

- It's windows only

- If you want reflux to start on windows startup you have to do it yourself. (I personally added an entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run)

- I recommend putting the exe and the ini in the same directory than flux.exe (on my computer C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Apps\F.lux

- In the ini (open it with notepad), you can add a list of "f.lux killer" in the KILLERPROCESSES part. ie: KILLERPROCESSES=mpc-hc64.exe;photoshop.exe;vlc.exe

- There are 2 other options.

- If you didn't put reflux.exe in the same directory than flux.exe you can add a FLUXPATH entry. ie: FLUXPATH=c:\flux\flux.exe

- The process (by default) is executed every 2500ms. If you find it too slow or too quick you can add a CHECKINTERVAL entry. ie : CHECKINTERVAL=5000

Hope you guys enjoy it

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by spc476 »

jasonkester wrote: post #64
fredsted wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Speaking of genetic differences, you see this same sort of split whenever "what music do you listen to while coding?" gets discussed here. Half the folks suggest music that makes them more productive. The other half say that any music at all distracts them to the point that they can't get anything done. For anybody looking to correlate the two, I wrote the above and fall squarely into the "no music" camp as well. May…

For people who light affects their sleep fall generally fall into two camps: those that are oversensitive to light, and those that are undersensitive to light. For the former, (as an extreme example) a flashlight might prevent them from feeling tired (since their body feels like it's day time); whereas for the later, you can shine a tungsten movie light on them and they won't wake up (I think I'm the later---I can easily sleep during the day).

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by hollerith »

herf wrote: post #131

Summary of feature requests so far: - default to a slower transition - support dimming too - Add an API - Sunset is fine, except in the winter Most of these are on our list but it is all good feedback!

First, thanks for creating f.lux.

A feature request: some way for me to get rid of the f.lux menu-bar icon without quitting f.lux.

(I am willing to switch to an app or a preference pane to interact with f.lux.)

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