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Reader's Night Filter for the desktop and the browser 1.0.1

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@funkypitt funkypitt released this 04 Oct 20:37

Fix for KDE Plasma: the Night Light switch in the system tray now switches the whole filter.

That switch does not turn Night Light off; it pauses it. The amber went away but the gray and the dimming (a KWin effect) stayed, and the screen was left gray. A small service installed with the filter now follows that switch: off with it, back on when it is flipped again. A pause made while the filter is already off is left alone. readers-night on during such a pause says the amber is missing and where the switch is.

  • readers-night-install.sh: GNOME 45 or newer (Xorg and Wayland sessions) and KDE Plasma 6. Run bash readers-night-install.sh in a terminal of the session; no root. Installing over 1.0.0 updates in place. On GNOME, log out and back in once.
  • readers-night-browser-1.0.1.zip: Chrome and Brave, unchanged apart from the version number. Unzip, then Load unpacked in the extensions page with Developer mode on.

Tested on a real Plasma 6.7.4 laptop session (Manjaro, Wayland) and, for 1.0.0, in containers on GNOME 46 and 50. The Windows and macOS apps are in 1.1.0. Limits and details in the README.

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ef8baddda101b9bcf371d9775cccb3ccd9f9f4b4d0d27d21b6c28c91c74c5eff readers-night-install.sh
2f200732a5d9adc38579236830d09abb363e8750111caac59b19998f8d7bb7af readers-night-browser-1.0.1.zip

Reader's Night Filter 1.1.0 — Windows and macOS

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@funkypitt funkypitt released this 03 Oct 19:55

Windows and macOS versions of the night filter: gray, then amber (1900 K, no blue), then dimmed, over the whole screen.

  • readers-night_1.1.0_windows.exe: Windows 10 and 11. A crescent in the notification area; click to switch, right click for the settings. Win+Shift+N. Not signed: More info › Run anyway.
  • readers-night_1.1.0_macos.dmg: macOS 13 or newer, Apple Silicon and Intel. A crescent in the menu bar. ⌃⌥⌘N. Not notarised: the first opening is confirmed in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.

Pre-release: built and self-tested on GitHub's Windows Server 2025, macOS 15.7 and macOS 26.6 runners (the system accepts the colours and reads them back), not yet looked at on a real screen.

The Linux installer and the browser extension are unchanged: see 1.0.0.

Reader's Night Filter for the desktop and the browser 1.0.0

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@funkypitt funkypitt released this 02 Oct 12:58

First release. Turns the screen gray and amber, with no blue light, at the brightness you choose.

  • readers-night-install.sh: GNOME 45 or newer (Xorg and Wayland sessions) and KDE Plasma 6. Run bash readers-night-install.sh in a terminal of the session; no root. On GNOME, log out and back in once.
  • readers-night-browser-1.0.0.zip: Chrome and Brave. Unzip, then Load unpacked in the extensions page with Developer mode on.

Tested in containers on GNOME 46 and 50 and on KWin 6.7.4; not yet on real laptops. Limits and details in the README.

SHA-256
917042f9e2660dd724dca2cd4105ec3180c507dbc1724e791402d6ad53d841da readers-night-install.sh
01b76f305475532976577c9856e912a036551f44a991cc48019ada896709080b readers-night-browser-1.0.0.zip