redshift
This package provides the base program. Original-Maintainer: nicoo
Latest reviews
For me it is running very well. Of course, geolcue doesn't work so you need to create a redshift.config in your /.config folder (Linux Mint). After updating Lat and Lon in the config file it works really well. Use google to find some furhter help on the config file ;-)
Often the location detection doesn't work which completely turns off the blue light filter. QRedshift is better, has more customisation options and should be the default app.
Up until the past week or so, it worked great; however, now geoclue2 doesn't play with it anymore. Fortunately, QRedshift (Cinnamon applet) plays fine with the location services. I removed RedshiftGTK.
Probably the worst software on linux mint to adjust the temperature. Developers, if you see this message, please remove this horror and replace it with gammy! It's simple and customizable, and unlike Redshift, it's not bug-filled!
This thing should not be based on Firefox geoclue2. Update Firefox yesterday: I'm back (so called) in the Philipines and I live in France. Happens often. Sometimes a Firefox update corrects it, but after another update: back to the Philipines. Day becomes night, night becomes day, and my search engines locate me wrong too. Some pages block me, saying I'm on a bot. Redshift should be based on the computer location settings and not depending on bugs in Firefox.
Never liked it. Had it in several installations and more issues with it than not. Location tracker and preset times rather than providing a simple GUI to leave those settings to the user is beyond me. Most common issue was several instances hindering themselfes or needing system restart. Never understood why there was not one simple working bluelight filter option under linux.
Didnt work for me with LM 21.1 or 20.3 it might be my GPU, monitor not sure but when it did work in the past I didnt think it was all that great.
No longer maintained. See maintained fork, gammastep: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep (version in repository is out of date)
It used to work well, but no longer : the light suddenly changes whereas it's not the good time.
After a long time of use, the app becomes corrupt / broken, and despite there being an Issue page on github, with many, many users commenting their experience with the bug, it is not being updated or fixed in any way. The brightness, gamma, and color temperatue settings can only be changed by opening the configuratin file in text editor, and changing the values there.
Works like a charm. Most desktop managers have the functionality built in these days, but for Cinnamon it's great.
If you activate it by accident, there's no way to revert your screen back to normal until you reboot your computer. Uninstalling it alone doesn't do it. It's harmful software
no way to adjust the red. i quit the little icon and still have red in the screen.. no way to go back now.. not a fan at all..
I would give it 5 except for one irritation. When I use a VPN it locks in to the time zone of the VPN server. I would like it to stick to the time on the clock in the computer
I have a suggestion : add a setting to restore the day rules early in the morning because some people don't receive too much light everyday, so they need full light from their screen. Know that not enough light is bad for mental health. So filtering in the evening is good but only it the person is not in situation of privation., it is good to help to sleep too. So I know no reason to limit the light in the first hours of the day. I am a doctor in medecine to say this. So I think that changing the location of the current place toward the east is part of a solution, diffrent, for that purpose.
If you're looking for a graphical menu, download QRedshift from your Applets menu.