Open JCSzamosi opened 8 years ago
This comment includes a fix and a workaround for this issue, or a related issue.
Quick workaround
fluxgui
applet and choosing "quit" (doing killall fluxgui
is not recommended because it will leave around a stale PID file which you'll need to remove with rm ~/.fluxgui.pid
before restarting fluxgui
).colortemp
setting by running gconftool-2 --unset /apps/fluxgui/colortemp
.fluxgui
applet by running fluxgui &!
.Explanation of problem and a patch
Not sure if this is the same problem you were having, but for me the flux indicator applet was appearing in my system try, but flux was not dimming my screen, and when I clicked on it and choose "preferences" nothing would happen. Flux had been working previously for me, and I had set it to autostart.
I quit flux by clicking on the applet and choosing "quit", and then started flux in a terminal by typing fluxgui
. The applet reappeared and when I clicked on it and chose "preferences" I saw an error in my terminal related to the
self.colsetting.set_active(self.temperature_to_key(self.settings.color))
call in /usr/share/pyshared/fluxgui/fluxapp.py
having the wrong type of argument. After a little more poking around, I learned that the self.temperature_to_key(self.settings.color)
call was returning None
, apparently because the color setting stored in my gconf was somehow invalid (perhaps it became invalid after upgrading the fluxgui
package; I saw some code related to upgrades and color settings). So, I edited temperature_to_key
to return a default value (corresponding to 6500, which I think is full brightness):
$ diff -U15 /usr/share/pyshared/fluxgui/fluxapp.py.orig /usr/share/pyshared/fluxgui/fluxapp.py
--- /usr/share/pyshared/fluxgui/fluxapp.py.orig 2016-02-20 22:57:35.084326694 -0800
+++ /usr/share/pyshared/fluxgui/fluxapp.py 2016-02-20 23:12:08.048309987 -0800
@@ -155,30 +155,32 @@
temperatureKeys = {
0: '2300',
1: '2700',
2: '3400',
3: '4200',
4: '5000',
5: '6500',
"off": '6500',
}
def temperature_to_key(self, temperature):
for i, t in self.temperatureKeys.items():
if t == temperature:
return i
+ else:
+ return 5 # Must return an int
def connect_widget(self, widget_name, connect_target=None,
[...]
After making the above change to /usr/share/pyshared/fluxgui/fluxapp.py
the silent failure problem went away for me.
Another, simpler workaround, is probably to clear your gconf settings. You can see your current fluxgui
settings using gconftool-2
:
$ gconftool-2 --recursive-list /apps/fluxgui
longitude = -122.6223
colortemp = 2300
autostart = true
zipcode = 97232
latitude = 45.5148
You can clear your current colortemp
setting with
$ gconftool-2 --unset /apps/fluxgui/colortemp
but you probably want to turn off fluxgui
before doing this.
Flux version
I'm using fluxgui
version 1.1.8-4~wily
from https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewaldock/+archive/ubuntu/flux on Ubuntu 15.10.
On Ubuntu 14.04. I've downloaded and installed the latest version (as of last week). It installed and I have xflux starting automatically, but the f.lux indicator applet won't launch (just fails silently from application launcher)