Redshift isn't maintained anymore. what to use?
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gammastep
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If using wayland: wlsunset
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It is probably a good idea to mention what Redshift actually is, since it's far from the top result in a search, and a lot of people associate that word with an AWS product by the same name. Wikipedia describes the Redshift you presumably mean as:
an application that adjusts the computer display's color temperature based upon the time of day.
It also mentions that gammastep is a more recent fork, but it has not had any commit activity for 2.5 years, so gammastep might be abandoned as well.
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Use dark mode at night and you won't need Redshift any more. It's only relevant for white screens.
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gammastep works just fine for me on sway, and it appears the maintainer is still replying to issues on that repo. i wouldn't worry too much just yet.
that said, it seems to not work for hyprland, so for anyone using that, look for something else
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Welcome to the dark side ! Once you have seen it, you can't unseen it ! White will always be to bright and your eyes will cry blood on every screen/webpage that doesn't have a dark mode !
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What setup do you have that actually sets a dark background everywhere? In my experience there are always plenty of programs and web pages that stay white.
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KDE has similar functionality built-in. (Called night color, you can find it in display settings, and evwn add a control icon to the taskbar). Doesn't gnome?
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For web sites, there's the dark reader extension.
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As someone else said, Dark reader extension for your browser.
For programs, if you are on Linux, you can changes the theme depending if it's GTK based or Qt apps. It's very customizable ! (Linux FTW).
If you're on Windows... You're probably fucked !!
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I usually only use it via command line, but that's disappointing to hear that it's no longer supported. I have used redshift-gtk in the past but I could never keep it functioning for very long, and I prefer KDE. It seems every alternative wants to automate it to synchronize with sunrise and sunset, but 90% of the time I use it is simply because my eyes are already aching. I wish there was another with an easy access on/off switch. The built-in functions require going into setting each time I want to change it and that's just no good.
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There is.
You can add a taskbar icon for KDE night color. Clicking it opens a panel with a toggle, and quick acess to the full settings page. It should be in the config for the taskbar icon applet.
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Definitely disagree, dark mode doesn't change the temperature of other things you are viewing such as images and video
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So I basically use only terminal apps (black!), a couple of messengers (dark mode) and Firefox. And yes, the problem is the latter. For a couple of years I used the Dark Reader extension. It works, pages look great - BUT! nothing would solve the occasional white flash problem. Last time I checked, it's basically unsolvable by addons. Then I discovered the simple solution:
Preferences > Manage colorsand override the default colors! It works and it's native! Pages sometimes look a bit ugly but always readable and zero white flash. This is a pro tip that hardly anyone talks about, you saw it here. -
Oh, cool. thanks!
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Sure, images and video are the exception. But I figure that a redshift app can only help so much when a video suddenly cuts to a picture of a white sky. That's really another problem: choppy contrast. Only solution is to increase ambient light behind the screen.
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GNOME has too. There it's called nightlight
Budgie might ship with an applet, that enables the functionality as well (not sure, it's been a while, since I last used this DE)
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Dark colors still emit blue light.
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Especially if they're dark (literally midnight) blue, which is what my screen currently looks like!
I'm going with my feelings on this one. To me, an untinted white screen is like a standard LED lamp - it screams "Morning! Time to get up!" (which is why my lamp is covered with orange cellophane). A (heavily) red-tinted white screen feels like sunset. And my dark screen feels like, well, midnight. I sleep like a baby so in my case the problem's solved.
