Do you find your screen too bright

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In a thread in Portuguese a member, tiagoalisson, felt that the screen at LingQ was too bright. See

http://bit.ly/kkn5Oq

Alex suggested

“You might want to consider using a program like Flux (f.lux: software to make your life better) to lower the white balance of the screen.”

I installed the program and it automatically adjusts the brightness of my screen to the time of day in my location. For me the problem is solved. I occasionally adjust the brightness now manually.

I would be interested in hearing comments from others on this subject.

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I never think about the brightness of my screen! (Except, of course, when the sun is shining on it.)

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I promptly installed the flux thing and it seems to soothe the old eyes. Thank you to tiagoalisson and Alex, too!

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I love this program, thank you! I’ve become so used to it already, when I used my mum’s laptop, it hurt my eyes.

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Redshift is an alternative to the F.lux. F.lux does’t works on my Ubuntu 10.04.
More information about Redshift go to: Redshift
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/dica/Redshift-Program a-para-descanso-da-visao
Still, it is worth considering the possibility of providing a darker version of the site. Large sites like Google and Facebook offer that. See the picture at: Perfect Dark Google (complete rework) | Userstyles.org

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@tiagoalisson - The easiest thing to do in your case would probably be to just invert the colors on your computer. On Windows, I believe the hotkey is Shift+Alt+Print Screen. A quick Google search shows that the hotkey for Ubuntu 10.04 is Super+N/Super+M.

By the way, what you linked to above appears to be a user created plugin/style, not something that Facebook or Google put out themselves…

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In case anyone wants to know… f.lux works on Ubuntu 11.04 with no problems for me. (I’m going to switch back to Windows next week after a year of using Linux though :frowning: I’ll miss it)