Help with the light controls in your Mac menu bar.
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feedback@084817.xyzYes. Open Settings → Scene tones to set separate Light and Warmth levels for Daylight, Steady, Dusk, and Cinema. Changes to the active scene apply immediately to available displays; the other scenes use their saved levels when selected. Reset scene tones returns all four to their defaults. These settings stay on your Mac.
Light and Warmth adjust software display color. On a compatible external display with a public DDC/CI connection, separate hardware Backlight, Contrast, and Volume sliders appear only after a validated monitor reply. Many Macs, adapters, and monitors do not provide this connection. Built-in display hardware controls remain in macOS.
The software Light and Warmth sliders need a readable and writable display color table. Hardware sliders need a validated DDC/CI reply and may be unavailable separately. Nivora marks each unavailable control instead of claiming it worked. Try reconnecting the display or use Retry hardware detection.
The schedule uses Steady during your chosen daytime hours and Dusk outside them, with the Light and Warmth levels you saved for each. Daylight and Cinema remain available as manual choices.
While Nivora is running, a manual choice stays until the next scheduled switch when the schedule is on. With the schedule off, it stays until you change it, restore the display colors, or quit Nivora. A normal quit restores the software colors; reopening offers the last chosen scene without applying it automatically.
You can optionally enable Control–Option–1 to 4 for the four scenes. A separate option enables Control–Option–Minus / Equals to adjust software Light in 5% steps, targeting either the display under the pointer or all available displays. These keys do not change hardware backlight. If either Light shortcut conflicts with another app, both Light shortcuts remain off until you resolve the conflict and retry.
Yes. Turn on “Open Nivora at login” in Settings. If macOS requires approval, allow Nivora in System Settings → Login Items. Quitting normally restores software colors. With the daily schedule off, the next launch offers Continue for the last chosen scene; it does not apply that scene until you click.
An adjusted display offers “Restore this display” to undo its software color adjustment without changing other screens. The schedule stays on and may apply its next scene at the next transition. To restore all available screens and turn off the schedule, choose “Restore colors” in the menu bar panel or “Restore original display colors” in Settings. Both restore actions clear the remembered last scene, but do not erase saved scene tones or reset monitor hardware settings. Nivora preserves a newer color table written by another app and also attempts to restore its saved color tables when it quits normally.
No. The controls and schedule work locally on your Mac. Nivora has no account, analytics, ads, or developer-operated network service.