f.lux – Better lighting for your screen in Ubuntu

October 15, 2009, 9:27 AM

I’m that kind of people that I’m at least 14 hours day in front of the computer….that’s too many hours I know. My eyes since I use TFT they are not that bad but anyway it could be better, I’m a regular user of eye drops.

I actually did laser in my eyes and the lose of view was consequence of long exposition to the old CRT’s.

Since few days a go I found f.lux and I need to say that I think works pretty good, at least to me.

What f.lux does? (c&p) it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

How to install it in Ubuntu:

First dowload to your desktop https://secure.herf.org/flux/xflux.tgz
Unzip in your desktop as well.

Move the file to /usr/bin/

sudo mv /home/USER/Desktop/xflux /usr/bin/

Then you need your coordinates, you can copy them form here: http://stereopsis.com/flux/map.html
Once you have them in your terminal type xflux -l N, N where N,N is the copied text from before example:
```
xflux -1 41.387917, 2.1699187
```