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I like it.  It says that it will make you more drowsy though, so I wonder if it will reduce evening SRS performance.

I tried it at work yesterday and also last night at home. The screen seems rather reddish and dark at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly. It's much easier on my eyes.

I did find one problem with the program under Windows XP at work though. I run a dual monitor display setup and only the #1 monitor is affected by f.lux. The #2 monitor is not affected. I did manually tweak the color temperature of the second display to 6300K though. That also seems a bit easier on my eyes.  I'll have to check f.lux site to see if there's a fix or adjustment for that.

liosama wrote:

As for the teenager problem - why not just sleep with an open curtain?

Because the sun isn't up...?
I remember in high school, getting up at 6:30 in the winter felt like getting up at 2 am. I was going to bed rather early too... It's still tough now, but not nearly as bad.

I gunna try this program out too. If it makes the computer screen less harsh, I'll be happy.

As a werewolf, I use F.lux to counter the effects of the lunar tides, staving off the transformation. I can't tell you how much it helps to alleviate that dreaded curse. A dread surpassed only by the mindless, gibbering terror of inscrutable Cthulhu.

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Been using this for a week now, can't really say I notice any improvements in my sleep, though the screen defiantly is easier on the eyes at night

I guess it is easier on the eyes, dunno about sleep, doesnt make sleeping worse at least.

I just downloaded it. Seems very interesting!

Redshift linux works awesome for me so far. I will see if it helps my eyes after a week but i like it so far. Thanks for the sugestion!

After playing around with redshift I managed to build some scripts for it in Linux. As it does not have ANY Gui and the location thing is dependent on where you are you have to mess around with it to get it to work. Also it seems as though there is a bug where it inverts the gps locations but you simply switch the brightness level around and its the same thing.

Alright install the Redlight as per instructions.
Then right click create file and edit with gedit.

Paste the following code in:
#!/bin/bash
gtk-redshift -l 43.39:79.23 -t 4600:5600 -g 0.8 -m vidmode -v

-l stands for lat long, google your location. xx.xx:xx.xx = lat:long
-t stands for brightness levels, i dint like the default 3600 but 4600 is good for my eyes. I had to invert it for it to work properly as for some reason Redlight thinks my location is during the day at night and vice versa. Mess around with it until you like the results.

Anyway save it. Right click and edit file Properties, go to Permissions and check-box Allow executing file as program.

Then simply dble click and your good!

If you want to autostart it in ubuntu then go to System>Preference> Startup Applications and drag the script in. Should work.

Happy night-surfing

Thanks for this!

This is really easy on the eyes and, hopefully, my sleep cycle as well.

Sounds like fun, and I've noticed my eyes burning quite alot recently. My sleep is pretty good since I started using earplugs at night and a sleep cycle tracking alarm clock (thanks iPhone), but it never hurts to sleep even better!

Blahah wrote:

Sounds like fun, and I've noticed my eyes burning quite alot recently. My sleep is pretty good since I started using earplugs at night and a sleep cycle tracking alarm clock (thanks iPhone), but it never hurts to sleep even better!

Sleep cycle rocks!!