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• The tray icon now toggles the window (#86)

Unix

• make install will now make the app appear in your applications (#77)
• make install's default path has been changed to /usr instead of /usr/local .
• NOTE: make sure to run make uninstall before upgrading, to remove gammy from the old path. If you prefer the old path, run qmake PREFIX=/usr/local before installing
• Fixed compile error on FreeBSD (#92)

Windows

• Fixed a case where the process would not shutdown when quitting
• Fixed a potential crash
• Fixed inability to grab the brightness sliders scroll
• Fixed low res icon
• Known issue: potential crash when resuming from sleep

This release brings a number of changes to the settings window, which make it a bit less opinionated and clunky on tiling window managers. In depth:

• The window doesn't act as a dialog now, and can be minimized and resized in all directions
• The window doesn't have a "stay on top" flag anymore
• Window position is now saved (#68)
• Added a new config option: "wnd_show_on_startup". Setting it to "true" will show the window on startup always. (duh)
• On a first start, the window is now shown on startup regardless
• When the window is small enough, the auto brightness-related sliders can be hidden (except for "Range" and "Offset") and scrollable.
• The system default font is now used
• Pressing Esc when the window is focused will close it (#71) (A proper CLI will be implemented in the future, allowing more hotkeys)

The tray icon has also had some quality of life improvements:

• A middle click on the icon will toggle both auto brightness and temperature (#73)
• They can also be toggled separately from the tray menu
• "Show Gammy" becomes "Hide Gammy" if the window is shown

Bunch of fixes too:

• Linux: auto brightness not working when running at startup/resuming from sleep (#80)
• Windows 7: crash on exit (#65)
• Inconsistent UI look across different OSes/distros (#31)
• Debug logs appearing with debug off (#78)

Mostly Linux changes.

• Auto brightness now uses a much lighter screen capture method, which eliminates stutters and reduces CPU and RAM usage
• A new lib is required for building: libXext (on debian: sudo apt install libxext-dev)
• Added process lock (you shouldn't be able to run the app multiple times now)
• sudo make install default path now is /usr/local/bin

Fixes:

• Fixed tray icon bug on KDE (#76)
• Fixed mousewheel and middle click not working properly on the brightness/temp sliders (#72)
• Fixed a bunch of GUI visual inconsistencies on different distros
• Fixed rounding error on the brightness range labels
• Fixed clang build warning (#74)

• Removed unnecessary screen buffer allocations, reducing CPU and memory usage further (#54). Does not apply to Windows 7
• Adaptation speed can now be adjusted with more precision and can go down to 0 ms (#62)
• Important: it's represented in milliseconds now. If you are updating, move the slider to fix it
• Screenshot rate range has been increased to 0 - 1000 ms (#62)
• Brightness offset now takes into account the upper brightness limit (#61)
• Fixed unreadable tray menu in some configurations (#66, #31)
• Fixed build warning (#53)

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• Added initial multimonitor support on Windows (#29). Currently, only the primary screen is affected by the brightness control.
• Substantial CPU usage improvements when calculating image brightness (#54).
• Color changes now reset periodically to overwrite other apps' settings (#51).
• Temperature adaptation time is now applied before the sunset time.
• Temperature adaptation time limit increased to 3 hours (#52).
• Fixed a potential config error.
• Config has been renamed to "gammyconf" (~/.config/gammyconf on Linux). Settings have also been renamed (your old one won't work).
• Minor UI changes.

Known issues:

• On Linux, if you have a command to run the app on startup, the tray icon may not appear without a sleep command preceding it (#57).

• The app will now detect when waking up from suspension, and attempt to restore the correct screen values (#24)
• Time passed between the start time and adaptation time is taken into account when adjusting temperature *
• App version can now be checked in the tray menu, or by passing the -v argument in the command line (#33)
• Fixed a config error when the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable was set (Linux)

* Previously, if you started the PC just a minute after the temperature start time, you would already get to the lowest temperature. This is now fixed, even when waking up from sleep.

• Fix threshold label not updating correctly
• Fix compile error on Arch (#42)
• Fix potential C++17 compile error (#21)
• Allow installation into custom prefix (#45)

Bugfix patch in preparation for location-based temperature.

• Fixed incorrect temperature state at a certain interval (#28)
• Fixed abrupt temperature change (#27) *
• Fixed crashes related to config file
• Speculative fix for settings not always being saved
• Added animation framerate settings to config. "brt_fps" and "temp_fps" for brightness and temperature respectively
• Default is 60 FPS for brightness and 45 for temperature. Try lowering them if you have performance issues

* Temperature state based on adaptation time to be implemented.

• Fixed crash when opening temperature schedule window (#22)
• Potential build error fix (#23)
• Small UI fixes

• Improved brightness and temperature interpolation, resulting in smoother transitions
• Improved adaptation behaviour (WIP)
• Adaptation speed slider now allows more granular settings
• Added adaptation speed setting for adaptive temperature (up to 60 min)
• Auto mode now unchecks automatically when pressing the sliders
• Redesigned settings window (WIP)
• Window width can now be resized with no limits
• Various misc. changes