gammastep, a Redshift fork

[Antediluvian]

This may be old news to many but it wasn't to me so I make this post for ignorant folks like myself. According to a search there is little said about gammastep in the forums here.

I like having an automatic change in my display's color and brightness as night approaches. Redshift no longer works for me, but fortunately there is a fork of Redshift that does call gammastep. The Debian Wiki points out that Redshift is no longer maintained.

Under the Enabled Repos tab of MXPI you can download the current version of gammastep, which is 2.0.9-1. The Debian Packages describes the depends, etc.

The Debian Manpages explains how to use gammastep.

For brevity, the following is working well for me. I wrote the text file below and saved it as config.ini in the /home/*username*/.config/gammastep/ directory. No geoclue required.

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[general]
temp-day=6500
temp-night=3400
brightness-day=1.0
brightness-night=0.9
# gamma=0.8
fade=1
adjustment-method=randr
location-provider=manual
[manual]
lat=40.69
lon=-74.04

Hope that helps someone!

[davidy]

Nice. I like the little red lightbulb icon. I had already deduced geoclue was not even being used with redshift so no loss there to begin with. Gammastepp just needs to be opened once and then any modified version of your config file works. Thanks. Have not rebooted or even had it long enough to see it work but seems to be the same dealio as redshift, just simpler as it doesn't have a "gui" it never really needed. In mx21 redshift's gui did work but redshift itself didn't.

[count-72-on-fingers]

Hello Antediluvian

I removed Redshift which I had installed to start following booting, with a manually fixed latitude/longitude parameter. I installed gammastep following your guidance given above. It works well. Thank you.

[JeffA]

Redshift was still working for me as it had been in earlier versions of MX, maybe because I was using a config file for my location and such instead of letting it use geoclue? I'm not sure.

I decided to try out gammastep based on this thread. It's working fine. There's no difference in the way it operates; it has the same GUI as Redshift, just an icon indicator in the tray you click on to get options. Though it doesn't matter if you use Gammastep, but there seems to be some confusion on Redshift's GUI. I believe you can install two versions of Redshift from the MX Package Installer; "redshift" which has no GUI just CL, and "redshift-gtk" which has almost the exact GUI as Gammastep. I'm not aware of any other GUI.

So thanks for bringing Gammastep to our attention, I didn't know Redshift was no longer maintained.

[oops]

FI: redshift & redshift-gtk still work good here too (manually, without GeoClue2), the last version is Redshift 1.12 (May 21, 2018) : Removes deprecated original GeoClue location provider (use GeoClue 2 instead).
https://github.com/jonls/redshift/releases

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redshift -V
redshift 1.12

redshift -h