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Hi all! Sorry if this is not the right place, but I guess this would be a suggestion for the devs / package manager folks?

@Stuart_M and I noticed a glitch with the Redshift package in a thread I posted in Help.

Basically, if you install the Redshift package from the 'Popular Applications' section of the 'MX Package Installer' for active monitor color temp changing throughout the day, Redshift fails to work correctly as the required geoclue2.0 library it requires is NOT installed in MX by default already, and does not get installed / nor is it suggested to be installed when installing the Redshift package. I know the listing in 'Popular Applications' for it DOES install the Redshift-GTK GUI, so that is good, but it doesn't install GeoClue2.0 so the program doesn't work as a result of that.

Considering it is listed in the 'Popular Applications' list (i.e. the first / most-used page you see in the MX Package Installer...), this would be confusing for new users to Linux / or MX or confusing to long-time Linux users who are just 'less techy' and who wouldn't know that this library needs to also be installed.

Is there any way the MX Redshift package (at least in the 'Popular' list could be modified to add that library as a dependency so it gets installed along with the Redshift & Redshift GTK packages when selected in the MX Install Manager?

Thanks for all the hard work! Love MX and it runs like a dream even on my little low-end HP Stream 11 laptop! :)

MXPI>Popular - Redshift - - more info

Packages to be installed: redshift redshift-gtk

Agreed - no mention of geoclue.
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In MX-21.3 Xfce - MXPI>Enabled - redshift-gtk - - R-click - - - more info - - - - Show Details

The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: geoclue-2.0

Did they perhaps not include it by default as a few people objected to the potential location privacy issues of geoclue?

++EDIT @RallyDarkstrike realized after I posted, should have said that redshift can be configured to run without geoclue,
but yes I generally see most people using it with geoclue.

Also, I use sct (or now xsct) and I use them with Keyboard > Application Shortcuts, I agree with CB, lightweight (perfect for your one setup) and easy to use, do on the fly. It'll feel natural to you soon. and xsct will reset (6500k - default). I used because other apps were deprecated, conflicted with wayland/x11 or something, and didn't work with HDMI, no conflicts so far - ??maybe - I don't know, possibly one or the other of wayland/x11 or whatever, but sct was the only one that would work relatively easily with HDMI. endEDIT

MXRobo wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:30 pm MXPI>Popular - Redshift - - more info

Packages to be installed: redshift redshift-gtk

Agreed - no mention of geoclue.
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In MX-21.3 Xfce - MXPI>Enabled - redshift-gtk - - R-click - - - more info - - - - Show Details

The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: geoclue-2.0

Did they perhaps not include it by default as a few people objected to the potential location privacy issues of geoclue?

That could be the case....and, if it IS the case, I can see where they are coming from regarding privacy.

That being said...if the package is required to make Redshift....you know....WORK...geoclue should at least be mentioned somehow when trying to install redshift to a lower-knowledge or new Linux user would know the program won't function without it?

Redshift was mentioned as being broken here in AV Linux as well Post 30 or so.. viewtopic.php?t=79626&start=30

Without more details I assume and hope it's the same problem, simply a missing dependency

This probably explain why i cannot get redshift to work on my newly installed MX23.4..

Squid wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 12:09 pm This probably explain why i cannot get redshift to work on my newly installed MX23.4..

i've not used redshift, but possibly some helpful info here: viewtopic.php?p=789802#p789802

xaol wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 1:02 pm

Squid wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 12:09 pm This probably explain why i cannot get redshift to work on my newly installed MX23.4..

i've not used redshift, but possibly some helpful info here: viewtopic.php?p=789802#p789802

Sort of. The geoclue long/lat method didnt work.

However, making and use this sample config from the repo https://github.com/jonls/redshift/blob/ ... onf.sample
Set my own long/lat + custom times, then just launch redshift-gtk and it picked that up directly.

Squid wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 2:22 pm

xaol wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 1:02 pm

Squid wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 12:09 pm This probably explain why i cannot get redshift to work on my newly installed MX23.4..

i've not used redshift, but possibly some helpful info here: viewtopic.php?p=789802#p789802

Sort of. The geoclue long/lat method didnt work.

However, making

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~/.config/redshift.conf

and use this sample config from the repo https://github.com/jonls/redshift/blob/ ... onf.sample
Set my own long/lat + custom times, then just launch redshift-gtk and it picked that up directly.

This is what I ended up doing as well and it has worked fine ever since (creating the specific config file)