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I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Re: I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Post by danlove »

arohner wrote: post #10

I started using F.lux a month or so ago to help with insomnia. It's helped a lot, thank you for writing it. I've been holding out on buying an iPad to read in bed, precisely because F.lux has helped me so much on OSX. Is there a flux equivalent for iOS? Is it possible to write one?

Would be possible for an application to mimic Flux, but there is no way (except on a Jailbroken device) to do system wide Flux. Could be a nice niche for a browser or RSS reader though.

Re: I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Post by kilian »

arohner wrote: post #10

I started using F.lux a month or so ago to help with insomnia. It's helped a lot, thank you for writing it. I've been holding out on buying an iPad to read in bed, precisely because F.lux has helped me so much on OSX. Is there a flux equivalent for iOS? Is it possible to write one?

Thanks! To be fair, Michael Herf ('herf' here on HN) did most of the work, I just made a pretty GUI :)

Man, I would love a F.lux for the iPad! Shame that's not possible unless Apple built it into the OS themselves.

Re: I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Post by kilian »

pmjordan wrote: post #9
augustl wrote: post #6

Why is it only for Ubuntu? Or is it also runnable on, say, any GNOME setup?

There's a github link, so presumably it's only packaged for Ubuntu. I'm hoping I can get it running on OpenSUSE/KDE4.

If it has appindicator support, it'll run. I'm not sure if any other distributions already support it though. If you could let me know if you can get it to work on openSUSE/KDE4, (email in my profile) that'd be great!

Re: I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Post by jaf12duke »

danlove wrote: post #12
arohner wrote: post #10

I started using F.lux a month or so ago to help with insomnia. It's helped a lot, thank you for writing it. I've been holding out on buying an iPad to read in bed, precisely because F.lux has helped me so much on OSX. Is there a flux equivalent for iOS? Is it possible to write one?

Would be possible for an application to mimic Flux, but there is no way (except on a Jailbroken device) to do system wide Flux. Could be a nice niche for a browser or RSS reader though.

Is there a version for Jailbroken devices?

Re: I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Post by kilian »

sgentle wrote: post #15

The last version of XFlux I used reset the screen brightness every second, which made the screen flicker uncontrollably during fades (eg on lock, logout, screen saver etc). Does that still happen?

It does this if you're running more than one instance of XFlux, they, uhm, seem to fight with each other ;). F.lux for Ubuntu prevents you from starting the app more than once :)

Re: I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)

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Post by there »

paulsmith wrote: post #4

A similar program for automatically changing the color temperature, Redshift [1], was recently highlighted by Lifehacker and others as an alternative to the commandline-only XFlux, inspired by F.lux. EDIT: One advantage Redshift has is that it automatically determines your lng/lat based on your current "home" location in the Clock applet. [1]: http://jonls.dk/redshift/

redshift is also open source and thus works on other platforms, where f.lux is closed source.
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