f.lux

[Mark Grealish]

I've been thoroughly enjoying using this under Windows, but the Linux version doesn't seem to function. Has anyone here had any joy with it under Ubuntu?

[Domhnall Walsh]

Worked great under Mint 11, doesn't under Mint 13.

[Paul Mac Eoin]

Works on windows. Used to work on ubuntu under 11.x but on 12.04 no joy.

[Gerard Ryan]

Is it a GUI version you're using, or the xflux equivalent? I use xflux
(and yeah, awesome!). Since all I was able to get was a 32bit binary,
and I'm on an x86_64 Fedora system; there were some 32bit libraries
that I had to install to get it to work. I don't know if that helps?

/me wishes sources were available for this since it's so useful. I
wonder how difficult it would be to actually make something like this?

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[Android Stream]

I haven't used it but if this is just about dimming the screen depending on the hour, this should be pretty easy to do.

It can all be done with a script. It will have a look at it once I have a laptop with me

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On Sep 9, 2012 12:42 PM, "Gerard Ryan" <ger...@ryan.lt> wrote:

[Domhnall Walsh]

It messes with the colour temperature too.

[Gerard Ryan]

Yeah, it's more about changing the screen's colour temperature rather
than brightness I think.

[Alanna Kelly]

Should be able to do that all via the graphics driver. There is probably a way to script it

[Gerard Ryan]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 03:54:35PM +0100, Alanna Kelly wrote:
>Should be able to do that all via the graphics driver. There is probably a
>way to script it

I've just discovered redshift[0] which does the same thing. It's a cli
tool, but there's a gtk interface for it also (which seems to be
broken in Fedora at least). Both should be built for ubuntu I think.

Once installed, adding something like this to run at startup should
work:

redshift -t <day>:<night> -l <lat>:<long>

Other options available in man pages / help. I think the temperatures
might be a bit off, or it might be just me. I thought my screen was at
5000º by default, and xflux sets to 3700º. Both of those values seem
really low with redshift though. 6500 and 4600 seem to be
closer. Here's what I'm using at the moment:

redshift -t 6500:3700 -l 53.269955:-1.051672

[0] http://jonls.dk/redshift/

[shane]

Second the redshift recommendation. It's working fine under Ubuntu for me. 

[Domhnall Walsh]

Nice one guys, will give it a go!

[Mark Grealish]

Cheers!