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A similar program for automatically changing the color temperature, Redshift [1], was recently highlighted by Lifehacker and others as an alternative to the com

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/ http://jonls.dk/redshift/

there 16y ago
redshift is also open source and thus works on other platforms, where f.lux is closed source.
- jlcgull 16y ago
  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!
  - there 16y ago
    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.
    - jlcgull 16y ago
      Sure. OSS is great and I am a big fan. But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again? Your argument in the present context is exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned RMS! Also, f.lux does work as advertised on the OSs that it is available for. :-)
      - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
        > But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again? FreeBSD > f.lux does work as advertised on the OSs that it is available for.
- nuxi 16y ago
  It works on other platforms because it's open source? Isn't that a bit of an overstatement? For the fun of it, I just downloaded this and tried to compile on my Linux box: ~/tmp/tmp# uname -a Linux susie 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~/tmp/tmp# cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) VERSION = 11.1 ~/tmp/tmp# wget http://launchpad.net/redshift/trunk/1.4.1/+download/redshift-1.4.1.tar.bz2 ~/tmp/tmp# tar xf redshift-1.4.1.tar.bz2 ~/tmp/tmp# cd redshift-1.4.1/ ~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# ./configure [...] redshift 1.4.1 prefix: /usr/local compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 cflags: -g -O2 ldflags: Adjustment methods: RANDR: yes VidMode: yes WinGDI: no Location providers: GNOME Clock: no GUI: statusicon ~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# make ~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' Making all in gtk-redshift make[3]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src/gtk-redshift' sed -e "s|\@gui_module\@|statusicon|g" gtk-redshift.in > gtk-redshift make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src/gtk-redshift' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' CC redshift.o In file included from redshift.c:60: gamma-randr.h:33: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before xcb_randr_crtc_t make[3]: *** [redshift.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 This is Linux mind you, not some AIX box on which it will never compile, even though it has X11 installed. (And yes, I know I can disable RANDR in the above case and it will compile, that's beside the point)
  - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
    The point is not that it works out of the box on all platforms, but that if it doesn't work on your platform, you have the source code available, so you can make it work on your platform by changing the software. You can't do that with closed-source binaries.
    - 16y ago

there 16y ago

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

jlcgull 16y ago
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!
- there 16y ago
  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.
  - jlcgull 16y ago
    Sure. OSS is great and I am a big fan. But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again? Your argument in the present context is exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned RMS! Also, f.lux does work as advertised on the OSs that it is available for. :-)
    - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
      > But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again? FreeBSD > f.lux does work as advertised on the OSs that it is available for.
nuxi 16y ago
It works on other platforms because it's open source? Isn't that a bit of an overstatement? For the fun of it, I just downloaded this and tried to compile on my Linux box: ~/tmp/tmp# uname -a Linux susie 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~/tmp/tmp# cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) VERSION = 11.1 ~/tmp/tmp# wget http://launchpad.net/redshift/trunk/1.4.1/+download/redshift-1.4.1.tar.bz2 ~/tmp/tmp# tar xf redshift-1.4.1.tar.bz2 ~/tmp/tmp# cd redshift-1.4.1/ ~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# ./configure [...] redshift 1.4.1 prefix: /usr/local compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 cflags: -g -O2 ldflags: Adjustment methods: RANDR: yes VidMode: yes WinGDI: no Location providers: GNOME Clock: no GUI: statusicon ~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# make ~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' Making all in gtk-redshift make[3]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src/gtk-redshift' sed -e "s|\@gui_module\@|statusicon|g" gtk-redshift.in > gtk-redshift make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src/gtk-redshift' make[3]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' CC redshift.o In file included from redshift.c:60: gamma-randr.h:33: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before xcb_randr_crtc_t make[3]: *** [redshift.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 This is Linux mind you, not some AIX box on which it will never compile, even though it has X11 installed. (And yes, I know I can disable RANDR in the above case and it will compile, that's beside the point)
- nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
  The point is not that it works out of the box on all platforms, but that if it doesn't work on your platform, you have the source code available, so you can make it work on your platform by changing the software. You can't do that with closed-source binaries.
  - 16y ago