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Your Mac can store lots of color profiles, and you’ll find that it already has a handful. Go to System Preferences Displays, then click the Color tab, and you’ll see a list. These default profiles, with odd names, such as sRGB IEC61966-2.1, are specially designed for specific uses; you can safely ignore them. Use ColorSync Utility to view installed color profiles on your Mac. When you install devices, such as cameras, displays, or printers, a color profile containing the color capabilities and limits for each device is created. In the ColorSync Utility app on your Mac, click Profiles in the toolbar of the ColorSync Utility window. Although you may be able to run OS 8 or 9 on your old Mac, you’ll generally find better performance using Mac OS 7.6. A history of the Color Classic, Tom Hormby, Orchard, 2005.10.31. The first all-in-one Mac with a color display had a bold new look but was crippled on the inside.

Okay, so I just spent the better part of 2 hours bashing my head into a wall trying to get ls to color properly. If you’re not with me now, probably skip the rest of this post as it’s aimed at my geek followers.
In a hurry? I’ll recap my solution in the summary.
Okay, so I’m browsing around in my terminal when I run `ls /dev`. Turns out that directory is full of files of type ‘block special character’ and ‘character special file’. Well, it just so happens that my color scheme that I’ve struggled a lot with shows these as grey text on a yellow or light blue background, respectively. The net is that the files are totally unreadable.
So, I of course try to fix this, find my entry for LS_COLORS in my .zshrc file, and away I go … or not. First of all, I’ve never editing the LS_COLORS before, I’ve always just stolen one from somewhere else. Here’s what I had:
Looks great! Except that somewhere in that mess are a couple of numbers messing up my color scheme. So, first up: how does that work? The extensions are kind of easy to reason out, but then there are some special, two-letter patterns at the beginning. Well, ‘bd’ is the type I was looking for (the ‘block special character’). I figured that out after finding this.
Oh, and backing up for a minute, I knew the offending files’ types by looking up the first character of ‘ls -l’. Here’s the section of the ls man page for reference:
So, as an example, both these entries are diretories, wich you can tell from teh first character:

As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal now supports 256 colors. Prior to Lion the default value is xterm-color, which declares 8 colors as shown by TERM=xterm-color. In the Digital Color Meter app on your Mac, do any of the following. Find the value of a color: Move the pointer over the pixels whose values you want to see. The color under the pointer is displayed in the Digital Color Meter window, with its color values on the right.

Anyway, back to the frustrat–err, learning experience. So, I start mucking around with the LS_COLORS variables, and can’t get changes to take. I progressively make more and more drastic changes, open a new shell, only to see that the colorscheme remains the same.
An hour later, I’m now discovering a new-fangled os x style of color codes, which really just looks like a glob of letters:
Well, how to set this all up is in the ls man pages, but nothing seems to be working for me. Here’s the relevant section from the ls man page:
Okay, so, looks like I have all the pieces, but I’m still really struggling when I had the ‘aha’ moment — I’m using screen. screen doesn’t reevaluate terminal colors each time you run zsh the way a terminal does. I got onto this line of thought after reading an article from macworld.
Once I went back to a raw terminal to test my changes, I was good to go. When I restarted screen, it picked up my colors from the terminal, and now I’m good.
I ended up using pretty normal colors for the file types that were giving me problems:

My zshrc is almost completely platform independent, but I doubt this is very portable. Maybe I’ll come back to it.

Summary

So, inclusion:
  • Exit screen before messing with colors
  • Read the ls man page to make sure that you’re:
    • changing the correct variable (LSCOLORS in Mac OS X)
    • representing your desired colors in the desired format

As always, you can find my current shell setup files on github.

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Thanks for installing f.lux.

Your f.lux installer is a .zip file - it should be in your Downloads folder. Install f.lux by double-clicking it.

Once f.lux is installed and running, you should see the f.lux Preferences window appear. Here, you can enter your location and set your usual wake time. f.lux uses this information to create a custom lighting schedule for you.

You can open up Preferences any time to view and change your f.lux settings.

The f.lux menu can always be found to the left of your system clock.

f.lux Preferences

Daytime is whenever the sun is up in your location. By default, f.lux is at 6500K during the daytime, and does not change your screen’s color.

If you prefer very warm daytime colors, select Options> Expanded Daytime Settings from the f.lux menu.

Sunset is when the sun has set, but you are awake. If you are an early riser, this is also your pre-sunrise morning setting.

Sunset colors are designed to work well with normal warm white room lighting. If you usually wake up before sunrise, you might prefer a more moderate (4500K or brighter) Sunset setting.

Bedtime is the time before sleep when you’re getting ready for bed (or already in it).

The Bedtime setting changes with your wake time. It removes as much alerting light from your screen as possible so that you can feel your body growing tired. You can go to sleep anytime with f.lux - whenever you feel sleepy.

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f.lux presets

The f.lux preferences window lets you change and preview settings. There are several presets you can choose from. f.lux will default to the Recommended colors preset.

Recommended colors: Use these for the first week while you get used to the change of colors and discover how you like to use f.lux.

Custom colors: Custom color control, click the time of day you want to change and then drag the slider to your preferred color temperature.

Classic f.lux: At sunset, f.lux will fade to 3400K, and turn off at sunrise. For large screens this setting is probably not strong enough to remove all alerting light.

Working late: for extreme night owls, removes solar timing and gives 14 hours of bright waking light.

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Location
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For most machines, f.lux can automatically detect your location with OS X Location Services.

You can also use postal codes (US only), the name of a nearby city, or map coordinates (find them on the map at justgetflux.com/map.html).

If you’ve been traveling, you might need to update your location. Make sure your computer’s internal Timezone settings are correct under System Preferences > Date & Time > Time Zone

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Options

Fast transitions: 20 second fade at sunrise and sunset. When unchecked, f.lux changes gradually over one hour.

Sleep in on weekends: For people who want brighter light later on Friday and Saturday nights (and sleep in on Saturday and Sunday mornings)

Extra hour of sleep (ages 13-18): Starts Bedtime one hour earlier for teens and other people who need a little more sleep

Expanded daytime settings: Warmer daytime settings (to 1900K) for people who want to reduce eyestrain or match office lighting

Backwards alarm clock: Calculates how many hours remain until your wake time and gives reminders every thirty minutes when it gets very late

Dim on disable: Gentle fade on disable so it hurts less to check colors

Color Effects

Darkroom: Removes 100% of blue and green light and inverts colors. Darkroom mode also preserves night vision while using a screen.

Movie mode: Lasts 2.5 hours. Preserves colors and shadow detail for watching movies with reduced alerting light.

OS X Dark theme at sunset: Uses the normal theme during the day and switches to dark theme (dock and menu bar) each night at sunset. Disabling f.lux will also disable dark theme.

Disable

For an hour: Disables f.lux for one hour and returns your screen to its normal setting.

Until sunrise: Disables f.lux until your local sunrise.

For current app: Open the app you want to disable f.lux for, then choose this option to disable f.lux whenever a particular app becomes active. You can re-enable f.lux later by opening the app and unchecking this option.

If you often check colors after dark, you might like to use the Dim On Disable setting under Options.

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About f.lux

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This is where to find what version you have installed, see our contact information, and get a measurement of your screen’s current brightness.

Quit f.lux

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This will quit the f.lux process and remove the f.lux icon from your menubar. Always quit f.lux before uninstalling or deleting files.

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Troubleshooting: Answers to some common OS X questions

Installing

  1. Click the f.lux Mac download link.
  2. Click the zip file to expand it
  3. Double click the 'Flux' application in your Finder window.
  4. Enter your location and wake time

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Uninstalling

  1. Go to the f.lux Settings panel (to the left of your system clock)
  2. Choose 'Quit f.lux'
  3. In Finder, search for 'Flux' and select and delete the f.lux app by dragging it to the trash

Uninstalled but can’t delete files

  1. Open Activity Monitor and select Flux
  2. Choose Force Quit
  3. Delete f.lux app by dragging it to the trash

Quit f.lux but the color still remains

Rebooting often fixes any problems with color tint. But if that does not help you, try the following:

  1. Open Activity Monitor and verify there is no 'Flux' process running
  2. In Finder, open System Preferences> Displays> Color
  3. Delete the f.lux profile
  4. Reboot if needed

Other video display issues

Some Macbooks were recalled for problems with video hardware. You can check if your model is on the list at: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

Flashing

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On dual-GPU machines we write an ICC profile in order to make the “switch” between video cards more seamless. In some older machines, and every so often, this doesn’t work so well. You can use gfx.io to lock to one card, or to read about how this system works and disable if you want, check out our f.lux profile + prefs article.

If you still have questions about f.lux or need more help, you can check our FAQ or ask a question in our support forum.