Not working on external monitors (ubuntu 18.04 with i3wm)

jonls / redshift

Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

http://jonls.dk/redshift

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Not working on external monitors (ubuntu 18.04 with i3wm) #737

Open arruw opened 4 years ago

arruw commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug If I'm using laptop's primary monitors redshift works, when using external monitors it does nothing.

To Reproduce

Connect external monitors
Use arandr on i3wm to configure screens
Run redshift -r -O 2500

Expected behavior External monitors are dimmed.

Software versions:

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (i3 window manager)
Redshift version: 1.11
Distribution: Ubuntu
Redshift installed from: apt-get

Jackalaq commented 2 years ago

Ditto on Xubuntu 20.04.4 LTS