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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 pmjordan »

kilian wrote: post #16
pmjordan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Appindicator does seem to be the critical bit; I'm still on OpenSUSE 11.2 which definitely has zero support, planning to upgrade to 11.3, which might, at the weekend. I'll keep you updated. My Python isn't so great unfortunately, so it'd probably take me too long to port it to something more widely supported.

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

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Post by farmerbuzz »

mwsherman wrote: post #3

I've been using it for a month or two on Windows and am quite surprised how much I like it.

Flux didn't change the appearance enough for me -- what I really want is to have light text on a dark background at night. One ugly hack is to use the Windows 7 magnifier tool to invert video. The colors are atrocious but you can pretend they are neon lights for night mode ;)

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Post by herf »

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.

I have a bunch of hacks, but nothing that actually works right on iOS yet.

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

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Post by thaumaturgy »

Great!

I've been a huge fan of F.lux on OS X for a very long time. The beautiful thing about the recent "gradual change" feature is that now I don't even notice it when I'm working late at night -- unless I have to turn off the application for some reason, and then I find myself squinting and fleeing.

Anyway, just wanted to take a moment out to thank you for helping so many people out.

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

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Post by jlcgull »

there wrote: post #19
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.

f.lux works as advertised. Love it. Use it. Highly recommend it. More so, now that is has nice GUI and all.

The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are RMS!

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

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Post by kilian »

ryanca wrote: post #20

Has anyone figured out how to get this to work on a multi-display configuration? I tried it and found it only affected my primary screen.

It's probably of no help to you, but I use a dualscreen nVidia setup (twinview), and it just works.

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

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Post by there »

jlcgull wrote: post #27
there wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

f.lux works as advertised. Love it. Use it. Highly recommend it. More so, now that is has nice GUI and all. The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are RMS!

The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are RMS!

um, or unless you use an operating system or architecture for which they don't build a binary, so you can't use it no matter how well it works as advertised.

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