sidneys/desktop-dimmer

Enable darker-than-dark dimming for internal and external screens.

desktop-dimmer's Issues

Ram usage

App is great, it's doing what it's supposed to do. But when i look a this:

It makes me question this quote from your readme:

Small resource footprint, minimal User Interface.

Don't take it as offence, i know electron have it's rights and a lot of people have enough memory to run it. But it's kinda unfair if you advertise small resource footprint when it's just.. not.

This kind of software, if written in something native, could take 0,5 MB of ram? I think we can go even lower than this.

App Throws Error On Fedora 31 x64

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Application fails to run on Fedora 31 x64

(desktop-dimmer:2206266): Pango-ERROR **: 03:17:55.384: Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Application should run

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. At command prompt, enter desktop-dimmer

🏡 Environmental Context

4.0.4
Installation Type
RPM
Operating System
Fedora 31 x64
Pango 1.44.7-1
Harfbuzz 2.6.1-2

Linux 32bit RPM won't install on Fedora 25

Trying to install the 32bit RPM on Fedora 25 as follows:

rpm -ivh /strg/ftp/ibnd/DesktopDimmer-LnxX32-2.2.0.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libappindicator1 is needed by desktop-dimmer-2.2.0-37.i386
libgconf-2-4 is needed by desktop-dimmer-2.2.0-37.i386
libnotify-bin is needed by desktop-dimmer-2.2.0-37.i386
libnotify4 is needed by desktop-dimmer-2.2.0-37.i386

None of my searches have turned up anything for the missing dependencies.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Unable to scroll up or down in Microsoft Edge while dimmer is on

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

When I try to scroll up or down in Microsoft Edge with my cursor or my keyboard while dimmer is on, I am not able to scroll down, but when I pause or turn off dimmer, the scroll down function immediately works.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Dimmer should not have conflict with scrolling up and down.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1: Open Microsoft edge.
2: Turn on dimmer

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v3.1.2
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro x64 (15063.483)

Add ability to pause Desktop Dimmer

Currently, if we want to temporarily disable Desktop Dimmer, there are two options:

1. Set the alpha value to 0
2. Quit Desktop Dimmer

None of those solutions are satisfying because:

1. Requires the user to reset the desired alpha value
2. Requires the user to reset the position of the slider (at least until #8 is resolved)

It would be nice to instead have an option in the menu to disable (and re-enable) Desktop Dimmer.

It doesn't work on "second level" windows or popups

Current Behaviour

The whole desktop becomes darker but if you for example activate full screen mode on Firefox (F11), make a right click on the web browser (it appears the contextual menu), open a menu of a desktop application or click on a username entering field of a web form (it appears a list with the saved users) -I called these stuff "second level" windows or layers - , then they appear with the normal and actual monitor brightness as if desktop-dimmer has not influence over them.

It also occurs when pressing ALT+TAB or when activating the "Activities" mode on GNOME Shell (pressing the Windows key). These are also "second level" layers.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

All elements on the screen should stay darker.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

One of the examples described above...

Whit desktop-dimmer running and the brightness adjusted at 50% (in order to notice the effect):

1. Open Firefox and a video on YouTube
2. Press F11 to activate the fullscreen mode.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v 2.9.0
Installation Type
Installed with the .deb package
Operating System
Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2 ; Kernel: 4.10.5-041005-generic ; GNOME Shell 3.18.5

Images:

High cpu usage after version 4.0 update

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Cpu usage of the software is much higher than the usual after the update and mouse cursor can't move smoothly.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v4.0.0 and later
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 10 Home x64 1709 / 16299.19

Mac Screenshots not working

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

The default screenshots from mac are not working if the dimmer is activated. The result is just a grey screen.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Well of course that I can do also with the dimmer a screenshot.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. start app
2. dimm your screen
3. press SHIFT+COMMAND+4 press space

🏡 Environmental Context

I have an extra monitor connected.

App Version
v4.0.4
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Mac OSX 10.12

High CPU usage

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

If using this software on Windows 10 having all 3 screens dimmed
my CPU usage goes up to 80% as well as the GPU.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Proper ressource claim

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
4.0.4.7

Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (15042.00)

Slider Control

What a fantastic tool. I was about to fork Shady and essentially build this. Thrilled to have found it - need to put it up on MacUpdate to raise awareness.

So I realized that it would be useful to have a toggle that will turn brightness control on and off for all monitors at once, thus maintaining the levels once it goes back on.

Further, having a "master slider" that would raise and lower all levels of brightness for all monitors at once while maintaining the current brightness ratio would be useful. This would be extremely useful actually, especially with a keyboard control. I, for example, control all monitor brightness via Shady with a keyboard binding through Keyboard Maestro since I frequently need to alter brightness based upon people coming in and out of our studio office.

30% GPU Load when Desktop Dimmer is on

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

White screen

Current Behaviour

Once activated, Desktop Dimmer makes the whole screem white. I can quit it after a hit and miss process to right-click on it in the system tray, though. It's actually curious why it [the white screen] doesn't cover the context menus...

Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. Click on Desktop Dimmer launcher or execute desktop-dimmer from terminal,

Environmental Context

App Version
v3.1.2
Installation Type
.deb installer
Operating System
Lubuntu 17.04

Menus, tooltips and cursor are not dimmed

Using version 2.7.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.

While windows get dimmed, any menu or tooltip doesn't. Below are some examples:

Newest version can not run on ubuntu 16.04

It is mentioned in this blog

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/open-source-desktop-dimmer-app

What versions of Windows are supported by Desktop Dimmer ?

What versions of Windows are supported by Desktop Dimmer ?

How do I uninstall desktop-dimmer

Hello,

how can I uninstall desktop-dimmer?

Latest version, running on Linux Mint 19.1

Thx

Apps that go fullscreen have old brightness value

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

When I go fullscreen on an app like VLC or such, it is overlayed on top of Desktop Dimmer, and as such appears at the brightness that i have set on my computer, not the reduced one set by desktop dimmer.

This doesn't happen, for instance, on youtube after going fullscreen.

Privacy

I have a question. I'm looking for alternative to f.lux because of their privacy policy and I'm searching for software without any internet activity like previously mentioned f.lux. Is this software meets my expectations or not ?

JavaScript error after login

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behavior

When I login I get this error:

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Object has been destroyed
at Error (native)
at OverlayWindow.updateRenderer (/opt/Desktop Dimmer/resources/app.asar/app/scripts/main/windows/overlay-window.js:174:13)
at _.debounce (/opt/Desktop Dimmer/resources/app.asar/app/scripts/main/windows/overlay-window.js:185:47)
at invokeFunc (/opt/Desktop Dimmer/resources/app.asar/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:10350:23)
at trailingEdge (/opt/Desktop Dimmer/resources/app.asar/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:10397:18)
at Timeout.timerExpired [as _onTimeout] (/opt/Desktop Dimmer/resources/app.asar/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:10385:18)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:232:11)
at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:202:5)

When the errors are gone, the app works. It dims the screen. It also remembered the last setting.

🎯 Expected Behavior

I would expect to see no error when login in / starting the app.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

In preferences enable "App Launch On Startup".
Reboot computer and login.
Please note - the app does not always print this error, sometimes it just runs fine...

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v4.0.4
Installation Type
Installed using desktop-dimmer-4.0.4-amd64.deb
Operating System
Running ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Made with electron.

hi i have a low spec pc with only i7 and 16gb memory, it eats too many memories and cpus. please fix

Support for scheduled brightness

The option to schedule screen dimming, like in SunsetScreen, would be very useful. I use the program on my Surface Pro for watching videos at night and I would like to automatically dim the screen after, say, 8 PM, and have it return to normal in the morning.

Support for keyboard shortcuts

Would be nice to be able to change Desktop Dimmer's alpha value with keyboard shortcuts instead of having to use the mouse and go through menus.

Can't install on Raspberry Pi. (NPM related)

can't install on Raspberry Pi.
NPM outdated.
Even when installing the latest NPM version for RPi 3B+, using Buster (Debian 10, or Raspbian).

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

npm does not support Node.js v10.15.2

🎯 Expected Behaviour

npm should have updated, or desktop-dimmer should have compatibility with older npm versions (5.8.0).

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

sudo npm install --global desktop-dimmer

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
latest
Installation Type
npm
Operating System
Raspbian

Segmentation fault on linux

Segmentation fault

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Stopped working.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

It was working before but not now.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. Install
2. Doesn't run.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
4.0.4
Installation Type
Arch Linux AUR
Operating System
Linux - Arch Linux x64

Support for bottom task bars

The desktop dimmer window is always drawn in the upper right corner. This fits top menu bars but not menu bars placed at the bottom of the screen.

It is quite inconvenient to click on the menu icon and then go all the way up to move the bar. Support for bottom menu bars (via automatic detection if possible, or else through a configurable option) would be great.

Integrate the slider in the menu instead of having it as a separate pop-up

I don't know if this is feasible but if it is I think it would improve usability.

Taking for example the Ubuntu sound menu:

It would be nice to have the slider available after clicking on the Desktop Dimmer icon (i.e. without having to click on "Show" and then have the slider pop-up), just the way it works with the sound.

Dimness covers only a thumbnail-sized patch of screen

🤷🏽‍ Current Behaviour

Instead of the entire screen, only a 63x63 px square in the upper-left corner is dimmed.

Screenshot

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
desktop-dimmer-4.0.4-setup.exe

Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (version 6.1, build 7600)

Cool app!

You should submit it to https://github.com/electron/electron-apps

🌔

Windows 10 taskbar set to autohide does not appear on hover

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Bug Reports: Windows 10 taskbar set to autohide does not appear on hover.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Bug Reports: Taskbar set to autohide should appear on hover.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. Right click taskbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Enable Automatically hide the tasbar in desktop mode.
4. Hover to taskbar.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v4.0.4.7
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 10 Enterprise N 2016 LTSB x64

No menu icon in Ubuntu

Launching the AppImage on Ubuntu 16.04 results in just a blinking cursor, with no visible user interface or menu item.

Dimming only occurs on one space per monitor

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Desktop Dimmer applies an overlay to the active space on each monitor.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Desktop Dimmer applies an overlay to each space on each monitor. The menu bar dropdown would still have one slider for each monitor; a monitor's slider would adjust the overlays for all the spaces on that monitor.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. Open more than one desktop/space on one or more monitors
2. Start Desktop Dimmer
3. Switch to another desktop/space and notice there is no overlay/dimming

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v2.9.0
Installation Type
Downloaded DMG from releases section
Operating System
MacOS 10.12.5 (16F73)

Causes entire desktop to be completely white

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Starting the program on Linux Mint 19.2 XFCE causes my entire desktop to be white. I had to uninstall it via tty1.

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🎯 Expected Behaviour

At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. At vero eos et accusam,
2. justo duo dolores et ea rebum,
3. stet clita kasd gubergren,
4. no sea takimata sanctus est.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v0.0.1
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (15042.00)

CloudApp Not Clickable in Windows

Currently when you click CloudApp in the system tray in Windows 10 it will not reliably click. One has to quit the app or turn it off (uncheck the enable box) before it will clicking on CloudApp will activate.

Please download CloudApp from here: https://www.getcloudapp.com/download/windows

And reproduce the issue. It reliably occurs on all Windows 10 installations I've tested it on (3).

[request] Flatpak release, or version for ARM processor

seeing this over on flathub would give this more exposure, and just be good for the linux community

one monitor only gets a tiny dark square in the upper left corner

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Only 3 of my 4 mintors are properly getting dimmed.
The one with the taskbar only gets a tiny dark square in the upper left corner.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

all monitors can be dimmed

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

Install it o.O

App Version
auto updated
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Fullscreen metro apps, mouse cursor, taskbar, start menu, and context menus in Win32 apps are not dimmed

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Fullscreen UWP/metro apps (such as Plex or Netflix), the mouse cursor, and right-click/context menus in Win32 programs (file Explorer, Chrome, Notepad, etc.) are not dimmed.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

All parts of Windows should be dimmed

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

• Run on Windows, open Explorer, and right click something
• Install the Netflix app from the Windows store, watch something, and go fullscreen
• Notice the taskbar becomes undimmed when you open the start menu, and that the start menu and cursor are undimmed

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
2.9.0
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro x64 build 1703

Does not work on linux mint 18.3 or 19

Run the install, then Running desktop-dimmer gets this immediately

module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.3/lib/node_modules/desktop-dimmer/lib/logger'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.3/lib/node_modules/desktop-dimmer/bin/cli.js:36:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Linux mint 18.3 and also tried mint 19

Always pretty print the settings

I keep my Desktop Dimmer config in git and noticed a difference with regards to how the settings (~/.config/Desktop Dimmer/Settings) are saved to disk.

When changing the settings AND quitting Desktop Dimmer, the settings will be pretty printed, like so:

{
  "currentVersion": "2.5.0",
  "overlays": {
    "21691165392764930": {
      "alpha": 0.75,
      "color": "transparent"
    },
    "17607560531959042": {
      "alpha": 0,
      "color": "transparent"
    }
  },
  "launchOnStartup": true
}

But when changing the settings without quitting Desktop Dimmer, the settings will be saved on a single line, like so:

{"currentVersion":"2.5.0","overlays":{"21691165392764930":{"alpha":0.75,"color":"transparent"},"17607560531959042":{"alpha":0,"color":"transparent"}},"launchOnStartup":true}

Which results, for me, in git telling me there are changes every time I open Desktop Dimmer. Would be great if the settings could always be pretty printed so that doesn't happen.

[Bug] My Screen Become White After Opening Desktop Dimmer Appimage

I still can interact with the desktop ui.

Screenshots:

My system specs:
Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Graphics: Intel Sandybridge Mobile

Autostart doesn't work on Linux

Running on Ubuntu 16.04, with a gnome-flashback DE.

The application is installed by default on /opt/Desktop Dimmer/ if installed via the .deb package.
Selecting the "Launch on startup" setting does create an entry to auto start the application, but it fails to escape the space in the path, rendering the autostart unusable.

/opt/Desktop Dimmer/desktop-dimmer --hidden
should be
/opt/Desktop\ Dimmer/desktop-dimmer --hidden

Or even simpler, and considering the .deb package installs a link in /usr/local/bin, another option is to remove the path from the launcher command:
desktop-dimmer --hidden

Save the position of the pop-up window containing the slider

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.2, I'm not sure if this affects other versions of Desktop Dimmer or not as I can't test them.

Whenever I click on the Desktop Dimmer icon and hit "Show", the pop-up always shows up in the middle of the screen. I can manually move it around to be where I wish it would show up, and then the pop-up will continue showing up there whenever I hit the "Show" option again.

That is until I restart Desktop Dimmer, at which point I need to move the pop-up again. It would be nice if we could save the position of the pop-up in the settings and have Desktop Dimmer use that whenever it is required to display the pop-up.

Preferences window shows two options on the same line without a space between them on a 2K monitor.

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Preferences window shows two options on a single line with no separation between them.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

First option should appear on one line. Second option should be displayed below. (That's the case on lower resolution monitors I tested.)

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. Click on the running application icon located in the Mac Toolbar.
2. Click on the cog wheel button to bring up the Preferences window.
3. Window shows '[v] App Auto Update[v] App Launch On Startup' all on one line without a gap in between.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v4.0.4
Installation Type
Setup
Operating System
macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Hardware Display Device
single external monitor 2K/QHD 2560x1440 (1418)

All screens white - Debian 9 - Mate

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

When you open the desktop dimmer after installing the .deb file for 3.1.2, all is white, completely all. but you can still click in the upper right and select "quit Desktop Dimmer". You can DO anything, but you can't SEE anything. Only a completely white screen

🎯 Expected Behaviour

It should dim the screen, not converting it all to white

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

Just install plain Debian 9 - Mate desktop

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v3.1.2
Installation Type
dpkg -i .deb
Operating System
Debian 9.1

Dimming is one pixel off

Observing this issue on Ubuntu 16.04.2, not sure if it affects other versions.

When Desktop Dimmer is running, it dims the whole screen but a one-pixel row at the bottom of the screen and a one-pixel column at the right of the screen.

Here's a screenshot of the bottom right of my screen as proof, obviously you'll need to zoom in a lot to see that off-by-one pixel issue.

This is only noticeable when the alpha value is turned way up and the one-pixel column/row is bright (white for example), the rest of the time it's barely noticeable.

Option to disable auto update

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

The software updates itself without any warn and I can't disable it.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

There should be an option to disable the auto-update. I am having a problem with the new version and trying to use the older one but it updates itself automatically.

🏡 Environmental Context

Operating System
Windows 10

Clicking on icon should yield adjust brightness.

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Feature Suggestions: Click on sun icon in unity tool bar, asks if I want to "show desktop dimmer"

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Feature Suggestions: Click on sun icon in unity tool bar and automatically show brightness sliders without having to click on a drop down menu to retrieve it.

I think it pretty obvious as to why I clicked on the icon, I want to change my brightness...

Just put version info in the brightness setting window, you already have the X there which quits the program.

App Version
v2.9.0
Installation Type
amd64 deb
Operating System
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

The cursor and dropdown menus should also be dimmed

Hello,

First, thank you very much for the awesome work on the app!

This is a feature request. Would be lovely if the app also dimmed the cursor and dropdown menus from apps that are still lit, currently it's a bit distracting having the screen dimmed but with the cursor and menus still very bright.

Best regards,
Cristiano Vitorino

White outline?

Has anyone figured out how to eliminate the white outline that's particularly noticeable on the top in macOS Mojave?

Command Line Options available?

Is it possible to change the settings via command prompt?
I want to control this awesome software using a different applications that uses custom conditions like daytime/user-idle etc.

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

It seems I can only change the settings by handling the sliders/cb's using my mouse

🎯 Expected Behaviour

I think of something like "/>Desktop Dimmer.exe -display 1 -opacity 30"

App Version
4.0.4.7
Operating System
Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (15042.00)

Compatibility with Pop!_OS?

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

Desktop dimmer icon does not appear in Gnome Shell's top bar.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

After installation I expected to see the icon in the Gnome Shell top bar.

👟 Steps to Reproduce (S2R)

1. Get Pop!_OS 19.10
2. Download deb package for latest version
3. Install with gdebi
4. Run desktop-dimmer and observe nothing.

🏡 Environmental Context

App Version
v4.0.4
Installation Type
Downloaded deb package and installed with gdebi.
Operating System
Pop!_OS 19.10