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Questions about redshift, a command line program to set color temperature of display according to time of day. User may also use this tag to refer the graphical user interface of redshift.

Redshift has been available in the Universe repository since 12.04 release.

The main package redshift provides the command line interface, whilst redshift-gtk provides the graphical interface for GNOME/GTK+ desktop. The KDE/Qt desktop however, has different packages for KDE Plasma 4 and KDE Plasma 5.

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Redshift configuration - how to set fixed transition hours?

Is it possible to configure Redshift so that screen color changes at fixed hours regardless of actual Sun position? I'm using Redshift 1.10-5ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and GNOME.
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How to use Redshift without the geoclue2 provider?

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…
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How to know the current brightness and reddiness with redshift?

redshift sets how bright and reddish will show the display. Say that the system is adjusted by executing redshift -l 55:55 -t 3600:3600 After setting them, is there any way to read these data out?
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Redshift doesn't work without internet connection because of lacking location info

My redshift does only work if there is an internet connection on my notebook. Is there a workaround? It's not convenient that one can't specifiy this inside the software. This is my terminal output: empedokles@thinkpad:~$ redshift Trying location…
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Redshift beahaving weirdly. Help?

I am new to Ubuntu. Installed Redshift, worked seamlessly but now started gamma shifting on it's own. Quiting it also doesn't help. I am on Ubuntu MATE 16.04. Help
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Is it possible to workaround the Redshift geoclue bug?

People have asked about this bug before, but it hasn't really been answered yet. Redshift used to work fine for me, but now it doesn't any more. I don't know how that happened. There seems to be some problem with the geoclue service or…
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redshift - No adjustment method 'randr'

I have installed redshift 1.10 and created its config file in ~/.config/redshift.conf as shown in http://jonls.dk/redshift/, but when I execute redshift I get a: No adjustment method 'randr' So I list the methods with: redshift -m list and dummy…
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Redshift in Ubuntu will lose effect for a while

I installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 on my laptop, and installed Redshift from the official software center. There's one problem that annoyed me for a long time. The thing is: sometimes for no reason Redshift will just lose effect for about 1-2 seconds,…
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redshift can not find geoclude2, after ubuntu 17 update

As i said in the topic, i got problem with geoclude. I got: unable to start GeoClude client: GDBus.Error.....AccessDenied:Geolocation disabled for UID 1000. I also install fluxgui then, but even when it works, it doesn't change anything with the…
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Exempt an application from redshift?

I'd like to use redshift on Ubuntu to redshift all but some whitelisted set of applications, e.g. Emacs, which I've configured to look the way I want already. Is this possible? If so, how do I specify the applications?
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How to use redshift adjust color for display

I use ubuntu and other Linux distro,all of them can't display color best on my screen as window, i've try copy *icm file in Windows, but can't use it in my ubuntu, when import , it not effect, So i try use redshift for instead, this is my config…
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Redshift any way to set Hotkeys/Keyboard Shortcuts to +/- 100 temperature

You can type, e.g. redshift -O 4000, in terminal to set temperature to 4000 exactly but sometimes you want to adjust the colour slightly in either direction once it has been set at a value
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