Redshift isn't maintained anymore. what to use?
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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.
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It works fine for me on Hyprland.
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If you use Linux Mint, it has its own redshift implementation in the new release 22.1.
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Gammastep's last commiyt is also from 2 years ago. Seems unmaintained to me.
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I'm using Arch btw
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I do too (endeavour os), but I prefer Mint. It just works, and it doesn't break as easily. All my laptops are mint, all my desktops are debian-testing (the most stable rolling release around), and I have one laptop where I fuck around with other distros for fun.
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I don't think you understand how the redshift app works then? It's not meant to stop bright lights, it is meant to remove blue light to mimic the light of evenings
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Yes of course I know that, I used it for years for that exact reason. Re-read my comment more slowly.
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Both gnome and KDE have this functionality built-in to the system now. It’s under display settings.
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Use it and redshift anyway, what kind of exploitable vuln could possibly be found in it?
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I always found that to be quite hit and miss. Works for plenty but often gives a flash of white before it kicks in and makes enough pages unreadable that I'd rather not bother at all! I'll give it another go and see if it's improved though.
