How to use Redshift without the geoclue2 provider?

Question

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 and returns the error Unable to get location from provider.

For the case of a missing internet connection, how can I make Redshift use a custom location setting and not make it try to use geoclue?

Noureddin · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-04T18:01:01.917

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You can provide your location (in terms of decimal degrees) to redshift using the -l switch, and it no longer needs geoclue.

In my case, I searched for "MY_CITY latitude longitude", entered dateandtime.info page, found the latitude and longitude of my city in decimal degrees, and provided them to redshift as indicated in the help and man page, namely redshift -l LAT:LON.

As an example, for New York, your can run redshift -l 40.71427:-74.00597.

edited Mar 04 '17 at 18:01

answered Mar 04 '17 at 15:02

Noureddin

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All right, so I run that command and it doesn't work: Malformed argument. Failed to set manual option. Try '-l manual:help' for more information. – Caleb Stanford Mar 26 '17 at 05:40
Copy and pasted the command exactly and the man page agrees with what you said. I'm quite stumped. – Caleb Stanford Mar 26 '17 at 05:40
After I searched I found this bug, so it seems to be an incorrect configuration file. – Noureddin Mar 28 '17 at 19:17
Thanks. I was able to fix it by editing my configuration file. – Caleb Stanford Mar 29 '17 at 04:09

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '19 at 12:48

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You can use my free bash patch using a jq workaround on GutHub.

answered Feb 10 '19 at 12:48

Nikolay Shindarov

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How to use Redshift without the geoclue2 provider?

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