[xmonad] Working on bind to change brightness/temp. Any suggestions?

[Ian Kelling]

On 12/18/2012 12:43 PM, Ian Kelling wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 11:23 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Ian Kelling <ianowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm working on setting up a binding to set brightness/color temperature in a
>>> way similar to the program redshift does with randr.
>>> http://jonls.dk/redshift/
>>> I'm just wondering if anyone has done anything similar or has any tips for
>>> me.
>> Out of curiosity, what is wrong with just using Redshift? It has
>> one-shot and specific temperature options.
>>
> Redshift does not work for a single monitor in a multi-monitor setup. Perhaps it 
> will be easier/better to modify Redshift so it can do that.

Turns out Redshift does support this (slightly hidden in its documentation), via 
-m. So now just conditioning it on the window part in Haskell which should be easy.