Both gnome and KDE have this functionality built-in to the system now. It’s under display settings.
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Gnome's was very inferior last I looked. No brightness factor and it was sunset or fixed time.
Im using xfce and i3wm.
wl-gammarelay-rs has worked for me. This is a daemon controlled through dbus, but there are some applets listed in the readme as well as a script in the repo for adjusting based on the time of day.
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.
Lol I thought he meant renderer
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
It works fine for me on Hyprland.
KDE has similar functionality built-in. (Called night color, you can find it in display settings, and add a control icon in the taskbar).
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)
If you use Linux Mint, it has its own redshift implementation in the new release 22.1.
I'm using Arch btw
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 play around with other distros for fun.
gammastep
Gammastep's last commiyt is also from 2 years ago. Seems unmaintained to me.
Use it and redshift anyway, what kind of exploitable vuln could possibly be found in it?
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 settings each time I want to change it and that's just no good.
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.
KDE also lets you set it to specific times if you want, maybe it didn't use to?
Oh, cool. thanks!
f.lux ?