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Questions about redshift, a command line program to set color temperature of display according to time of day. User may also use this tag to refer the graphical user interface of redshift.

Redshift has been available in the Universe repository since 12.04 release.

The main package redshift provides the command line interface, whilst redshift-gtk provides the graphical interface for GNOME/GTK+ desktop. The KDE/Qt desktop however, has different packages for KDE Plasma 4 and KDE Plasma 5.

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How to use "xrandr --gamma" for Gnome "Night Light"-like usage?

Background: More red / Less blue at night To save the eyes at night, adding more red and/or subtracting blue, is becoming popular in Windows 10 (blue-light filter) and Linux; Gnome Desktop (Night Light) and Ubuntu Unity Desktop with add-ons such as…
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How do I manually set location for redshift using the conf files?

I have geolocation turned off in Ubuntu 15.10. Is there a way to set location via GPS coordinates or neatest metro area using the in ~/.config/redshift.conf?
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Redshift configuration - how to set fixed transition hours?

Is it possible to configure Redshift so that screen color changes at fixed hours regardless of actual Sun position? I'm using Redshift 1.10-5ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and GNOME.
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Redshift/F.lux not working on Ubuntu 16.04

I have installed both Redshift and f.lux on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine to try to change the color temperature of my screen. I can open the apps, but neither of them has an effect on the screen color tone. On F.lux, when I try to preview the color…
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How do I kill redshift?

I have installed redshift using apt-get. I started it up in a terminal window, and then accidentally killed the terminal. Redshift did not stop running itself. My screen is most certainly still under the influence of redshift. I open Linux Mint…
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Change temperature values of Night Light

The screen of my laptop (Dell XPS 15) is rather blue. I found that I can tweak it a little bit with redshift. During the day, 6000K is the perfect temperature, in the evening I tend to use 5500K. Ubuntu has the Night Light option, so I was wondering…
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Problem with running redshift

I installed redshift by using the following command in terminal: sudo apt-get install redshift redshift-gtk But while running the program i ended up with errors: So i installed geoclue with the following command: sudo apt install geoclue However…
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How to use Redshift without the geoclue2 provider?

Redshift seems to use the geoclue-2.0 package to get the location specification automatically upon its launch. This usually works. However, whenever I don't have an active internet connection from the start, Redshift is unable to get my location…
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Redshift - Enable location services on ubuntu 16.04

I have a problem with Redshift. It doesn't get the location from my geolocation provider 'geoclue'. The problem was more noticeable when I tried to use Maps app which said I should enable location services in order to be located. I just can't find…
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Redshift/Flux/brightness-controller Stopped Working

I haven't used Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my laptop for a while. Today, after I performed a system upgrade, it seems that neither Redshift nor Flux is able to change the screen color anymore. There's just nothing happening on the screen at all after I ran…
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Is it possible to disable redshift on just one screen from a multi monitor setup?

I've got an e-ink display and would like to disable redshift on just this screen, but keep it enabled on the other two monitors. How do I setup this? Is it possible to increase contrast as well? (The Chrome high contrast extension is good for the…
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Redshift couldn't be initialized after upgrading from Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10

After upgrading from Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark, Redshift didn't autostart. Then I tried to initialize Redshift by running sudo redshift but it produced this: Trying location provider `geoclue2'... Using provider…
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How do I get the Redshift functionality of smart adjustment of the color temperature throughout the day in a Wayland session of Ubuntu 17.10?

Redshift is a neat little program allowing you to adjust color temperature of the screen during the day and separately during the night. Is it possible to achieve this with GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 17.10? Under Setting → Devices → Displays GNOME allows to…
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Permanent f.lux

I want F.lux enabled at all times, not only during the night. I also installed Redshift, it has the same limitations of checking my latitude. The Windows version of F.lux has always-on functionality, no idea why Linux doesn't. How do I do this?…
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Is it possible to workaround the Redshift geoclue bug?

People have asked about this bug before, but it hasn't really been answered yet. Redshift used to work fine for me, but now it doesn't any more. I don't know how that happened. There seems to be some problem with the geoclue service or…
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