flacer | # 1 | 2016-02-18, 17:19 | Report

hey guys, I have managed to create an eye nice service similar to redshift.

To achieve that, I’m using tint overlay (thanks to coderus) and situations app (thanks to hhaveri)

Although it isn‘t as good as redshift, since it lacks a smooth fading, and isn’t automagically time and location aware, it is nonetheless helpful and is easy on the eyes especially at night.

I’ve discovered that launching harbour-tint-overlay from terminal with any parameter causes to start the overlay but actually without the UI. So using e.g. enables the tint overlay with the settings you‘ve set but doesn’t launch the GUI.

Closing the overlay is done by the pkill command, which kills the overlay

My current settings are as following:
- a situation in situations app, which starts at 21:30 and ends at 7:00
- one action with the command plugin, which starts the tint overlay by simply executing (don’t forget the ampersand, otherwise the situations app will be blocked)
- a second action, which kills the overlay, enabled the "run at the end" box and runs Additionally I’m setting the sailing ambience, which has nice warm colours.
Hint: do not forget to remove all the actions from that ambience, so that sounds aren’t activated accidentally where they shouldn’t. Then it simply doesn’t change any sound related settings, so it had been silent it will be silent and the same with non silent.

As settings in tint overlay I have found working best: red: 50, alpha: 60.

Using this setup since two days, and really enyoing it!