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I love the Darkroom feature. I think that'll have some surprisingly handy applications.

Edit: Unfortunately, it seems to completely break when my screensaver kicks in.

I just fixed this and pushed it up. Download again...

Does flux "broadcast" it's color changes anywhere that would be scriptable? For example, using a dark terminal theme gives the wrong effect in darkroom mode. (90% of the screen is red). So I'd love to be able to script the changes and adjust that (and potentially other) settings. Or maybe a plugin architecture? :D

It might be less than ideal, but I cloned my profile in iTerm and set it to use lighter colors (Solarized Light) and just switch to it when I kick on darkroom. You should be able to map this profile change to a keyboard shortcut, depending on what you're using, to make the switch a little easier.

If you use terminal full-screen (like myself), you can also invert screen colors[0] whenever you switch to it in Darkroom mode.

This makes your dark terminal background, that became light thanks to Darkroom mode, dark again.

It's a little bothersome to invert colors every time, but I guess I'm settling on this for now. I use powerline in tmux and vim, and there doesn't seem to be a quick way to configure it with light-background colors (and changing terminal color scheme doesn't affect its looks).

[0] Inverting colors is toggled with ^⎇⌘+8 by default. You may need to enable this shortcut in keyboard preferences.

I'm also using a lot of dark themes (terminal and others), any quick way around this? They get really bright using darkroom.

Indeed, just tried it out and it will be great for amateur astronomy uses. (red light = doesn't hurt your night vision as much)

Darkroom's great, I just wish it would convert to grayscale before dropping the blue and green channels.

It does.

On the current version on windows* it doesn't. Any differences in blue or green become completely invisible.

*3.10, and I don't see a non-mac beta link

Isn't that what happens when you convert to grayscale? (Assuming the blue and green end up with the same gray values.)

In darkroom mode, 0x80ffff and 0x800000 are the exact same color. I don't mean that just tint disappears, I mean that vast luminosity differences disappear.

I wish it didn't make my dark themed vim look really bright. But great for browsing and not working.

Solarized has a toggle plugin you might be able to use/modify so that you can switch themes easily.

It does look much nicer than Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+8...

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