Comments on: F.lux for Ubuntu

By: locoyokel

locoyokel — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:23:19 +0000

Seems to be working okay in ubuntu 10.4 Great program. Thanks.

By: Khannie

Khannie — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:40:21 +0000

For those of you having the “ValueError: could not find setting” problem as I was on ubuntu 11.04, the solution is this:

download the source from git: https://github.com/Kilian/f.lux-indicator-applet/zipball/master

unzip it

replace the file /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/fluxgui/fluxgui.py with the one from the zip file: src/fluxgui/fluxgui.py

(you will need to use sudo to overwrite the installed file)

Works a treat after that (at least it did for me with the December 2011 sources from Git).

By: Muhib

Muhib — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:38:09 +0000

I have installed the version by following your instructions. But when it’s night, nothing happens. I have this in my windows, it works nicely, but in ubuntu 10.04, I am having problem.
The indicator applet shows, but when I run it or click the Preview button, nothing happens. Again, it’s also not working, it’s just showing the icon. Because when it’s night, nothing changes. Please reply me.

By: Paul C.

Paul C. — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:40:18 +0000

I have recently switched to Kubuntu from Ubuntu Oneiric, and I hope development is in the works to get f.lux working on our platform. This is a really great program, thank you, Kilian and Michael.

By: Pat Suwalski

Pat Suwalski — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:10:44 +0000

The deb itself works fine on Ubuntu 11.10.

However, with two screens, only the left one changes colour, making it less useful than it should be.

By: Jos

Jos — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:00:55 +0000

Hey, this doesn’t work very well on Linux Mint 11. It doesn’t automatically fix the lighting; I have to clikc the “preview button” for it to work.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:33:52 +0000

I’m having some trouble downloading the program, it appears that a directory doesn’t exist.. I can successfully add the repository, but when I update it ends with the following error: “W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kilian/f.lux/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found”

Sure enough, when I go to that directory in my browser it doesn’t exist. I have to go back up to the /dists directory where the only folders are lucid, maverick, and natty. Any ETA on getting the 11.10 Oneiric directory up?

In the meantime, you can download the .deb from here: http://ppa.launchpad.net/kilian/f.lux/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fluxgui/fluxgui_1.1.8_all.deb

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:07:19 +0000

Hi there. I love the applet but it does not actually switch the monitor color temp over at night on my ubuntu machine like flux does on my mac. The applet is running but the only way to get the color temp I need is to manually press the preview button every evening. Any chance of this being fixed? :(

By: Rcg

Rcg — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:49:30 +0000

I have ubuntu 10.10, It works great. Thanks for helping and saving my eye sight.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:25:09 +0000

Is there any way to make this work on Debian?