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Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens.

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos, comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens.
Date 2016-11-03 17:19 +0000
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On 2016-11-03, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 08:22 AM, William Unruh wrote:
>> On 2016-11-03, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/03/2016 03:11 AM, William Unruh wrote:
>>>> On 2016-11-03, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 11/02/2016 08:39 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>>> On 2016-11-02, Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi guys and gals,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      Sad news but remediable.  Should be spread around...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blue-leds-light-up-your-brain/?WT.mc_id=SA_HLTH_20161101>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	DEA is going to be after this deleterious stimulant. ;^)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hah!  They can have it.  Now I have scientific justification for my
>>>>>> hatred of the blue-LED craze.  (Aside from my eyes' inability to
>>>>>> focus on those wavelengths.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Try adjusting the gamma in System Setting/Hardware/Monitor toward red
>>>>> and away from blue and green.
>>>>
>>>> There exist programs to do this automatically at night (using the
>>>> system clock) Right now I cannot remember the name of any of them.
>>>>
>>>> I had it running on my system for a while and then forgot about it.
>>>> Probably on there somewhere still.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 	f.lux is referred to in the URL I posted but it is not compliled
>>> for my OS so I simply went to the simplest (for me) correction.
>>
>>
>> xflux for Linux
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by "not compiled for my OS?
>
> 	It is not in the repositories I use but I will search on xflux when I 
> have the time.

https://justgetflux.com/linux.html

It is apparently a pre-compiled (ie not open source) program. It uses
randr to adjust the screen colour temperature at appropriate times of
the day, as defined by your location on earth. 


>>
>>
>>> 	Back in my early Amiga OS days I regularly messed with color settings
>>> to off the overscan/interlace settings I used.
>
> 	bliss
>

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Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-01 18:52 -0700
  Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-11-02 20:44 +1100
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-02 06:23 -0700
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 10:16 -0700
      Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-11-03 00:19 +0000
        Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 23:46 -0700
          Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-03 07:07 +0000
            Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 21:49 -0700
              Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-04 05:42 +0000
              Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-11-04 09:41 +0000
                Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-04 10:00 +0000
          Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-11-03 20:12 +0000
        Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2016-11-03 08:47 -0400
          Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-11-03 20:14 +0000
          Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 21:50 -0700
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-11-03 00:18 +0000
      Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-11-03 03:44 +0000
        Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 18:42 -0500
          Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-07 08:01 +0000
  Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2016-11-02 08:38 -0400
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-02 06:28 -0700
      Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 18:46 -0500
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-11-03 00:21 +0000
  Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-11-03 03:39 +0000
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-02 21:40 -0700
      Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-11-03 10:11 +0000
        Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> - 2016-11-03 06:54 -0400
        Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-03 07:52 -0700
          Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-11-03 15:22 +0000
            Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-03 08:36 -0700
              Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-11-03 17:19 +0000
        Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2016-11-03 13:11 -0400
      Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-11-03 19:24 +0000
  Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-03 08:07 -0700
    Re: Bad news for screen watchers especially if you prefer bright screens. Ikke <hviaene@invalid.org> - 2016-11-04 09:44 +0100

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