f.lux - rest your eyes during the night - Page 5

On December 17 2013 02:39 mantequilla wrote:
I actually didn't like it. Night time light is too low, low light also puts strain in your eyes because you have to focus more.

On December 17 2013 01:39 Natolumin wrote:


I guess, now that there is a (good ?) linux version this is not really relevant anymore, but have you tried redshift for linux ?

On December 17 2013 09:28 Tarot wrote:
I tried this a while ago and didn't like it much. Maybe it was because I didn't configure properly.

But is there a way to make the change incremental throughout the day, so I don't even notice it? When I used it, it was very glaring when the color space changes :/

On December 17 2013 09:11 Samba wrote:
Just installed this, probably the next best thing after the TL Dark addon. (miss it so much, damn you FireFox!)
Set it at 4200 at night now, the default was way to orange for me.
Thx, forgot about this.

Edit: Is there any way to apply this also to my 2nd monitor?

On December 17 2013 10:18 -Kaiser- wrote:


Nope, it's a pretty crap piece of software considering how many people want to use it. The change happens like instantaneously, it fucks over your OS's colour palette, sometimes you uninstall and it leaves everything orange and you have to reinstall it, makes some Nvidia drivers crash, etc.

On December 17 2013 09:28 Tarot wrote:
I tried this a while ago and didn't like it much. Maybe it was because I didn't configure properly.

But is there a way to make the change incremental throughout the day, so I don't even notice it? When I used it, it was very glaring when the color space changes :/

On December 17 2013 12:44 Ropid wrote:

In its settings window, you can choose to have it change the colors inside of 20 seconds or slowly over one whole hour.

You can also configure it to be less extreme about the shift to orange so that it won't be as noticeable in general at night.

On December 17 2013 16:31 -Kaiser- wrote:


1 hour is still very noticeable.

On December 17 2013 02:06 FakePseudo wrote:

Currently trying redshift(1.7) on mint, gotta say it's not that neat. Launching from any graphical interface fails with no output. Calling it raw in the command line outputs an ugly error. and it has not builtin --help. -h works however so apparently you cant call it without -l lat:lon and since you launch it in a terminal you have this things which keeps running. gtk-redshift (1.7) is not that pretty either, since you still have to call it from bash, so it just adds this small icon which burns your eyes when you click on it, and...that's it. If you have any advice on how to get those running smoothly, it would be very welcome.

I'll give the f.lux version for linux a shot.

; Global settings
[redshift]
temp-day=5700
temp-night=3500
transition=1
gamma=0.8:0.7:0.8
location-provider=manual
;adjustment-method=vidmode

; The location provider and adjustment method settings
; are in their own sections.
[manual]
lat=38
lon=-122

; In this example screen 1 is adjusted by vidmode. Note
; that the numbering starts from 0, so this is actually
; the second screen.
;[vidmode]
;screen=1