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Redshift to reduce eyestrain at night

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If your monitor, like mine, is a little bright and on the blue side, you might appreciate Redshift available on Linux and Windows (with caveats). It takes your location and the time of day and alters your monitor settings to make the colours match daylight during the day and tungsten during the night. You can tweak the settings quite a lot. I don't like the screen getting so red during the night - it's a cheap laptop screen so the colours are bad enough as it is without too much more messing around.

Here's the command I'm using on Linux, using Medmenham as my geographical location. You can easily get latitude and longitude for any place using Google maps: find the place, and the lat/lng is after &ll= in the URL when you click Link.


gtk-redshift -l 51.556459:-0.834851 -t 5700:4900 -g 0.8 -m vidmode
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Shawn said,

Friday, July 15. 2011 at 15:34 (Reply)

Thanks for taking the time to talk about this, I feel strongly about it and I like learning about this subject.Thanks, you have made it very easy for me to understand. =-=


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