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Mike Walsh wrote:Hi, Fred.

Well, all three versions are mirrored here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

I'll make sure the community doesn't lose access to these, at any rate!


Mike.

Thanks for that Mike, but would you mind updating these to the new v2 ?
(the ones you provide won't work anymore with the "auto-locate", so offering these is rather useless IMHO)

Fred

Hi, Fred.

Already ahead of you there. The available versions for download are all v2 releases (uploaded 3 or 4 days ago).....and I've just re-named the folder to v2 to make it clearer.


Mike.

Ah, you did already, thanks Mike !

Fred

*** Redshift-Portable Update (v3) ***

See new attachments v3 at first post.

Changes:
- Bug fixed that it didn't correctly set longitude and latitude (geo-location) at start when auto-mode enabled.
(worked only once adjusted the color temp. and clicked Save, now should work ok when e.g. loaded at boot from /root/Startup)

- Some cosmetic changes, e.g. different looking info splash dialog (using box_splash) . (with display of .gif image, see pic below )

Fred

Fred:-

New version (v3) mirrored here at my G-Drive:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Neat splash screen..!


Mike.

Thanks Mike for the mirrors

Neat splash screen..!

Yes, thanks to Argolance for pointing at the issues/bugs concerning "box_splash" (formerly named "gtkdialog-splash" and before that "yaf-splash"), MochiMoppel made some major fixes and I tried to continue working a little further on improvements.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114446

Fred

Hi, Fred.

I've been playing around with Darry's 're-jig' of 4.3.1 (4.3.11 'Phoenix') - he's remastered it with an upgraded glibc, and quite a number of other upgrades - and been having a lot of fun generally. It's still remarkably usable as a daily driver, albeit with various workarounds, naturally.

(Even running a recent version of Iron, and FF68esr via a Tahrpup 'jail', after watchdog showed the way. Which is about the only way you'd get modern browsers running in such an elderly Pup.)

I've had one problem with it right from the start, though. The display has always been far too bright & 'washed-out' looking; even the monitor's brightness/contrast controls could never really get a 'handle' on it. Perhaps it's just the combination of 431's X-server/Xorg stuff and my specific graphics hardware; I really wouldn't like to say. The monitor calibration tools built-into Puppy have never done anything for me, and I've been meaning to explore all the variations on brightness controls we cooked up between us (I still have every version we put together, even those that were superseded by improved versions!)

Anyway; to cut a long story shorter, the first thing I decided to try was the Wary version of RShift-lite (v3). It's cured it, mate. Works perfectly.....so the brightness issue is sorted, and I've got my night-time red tint back, too. (And the geo-locate got down to just 2 miles away, so.....that's close enough).

So we now know it works fine in Puppy 4.3.1, as well. Just wanted to let you know.


Mike.

It's great !!!
thanks fredx181

According to this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50807011
blue light might be better than red light to help you to sleep.

Here are 2 very simple cli scripts to dim the screen and make it more blue.

"night" uses BionicPup64's brightness-set to dim the backlight
if you have a laptop.

"night2" dims the screen using xrandr and does not need brightness-set

The scripts are intended as an experiment.
The values in the scripts would probably need to be tweaked
for your particular machine.

gzipped, just click to unzip.

I don't know where to put this,
hardly worth a new thread,
so I hope nobody minds if I put this here.