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.
Redshift won't start. I added the following to the script at ~/.config/redshift.conf as suggested:
; Global settings for redshift
[redshift]
; Set the day and night screen temperatures
temp-day=5700
temp-night=9000
; Enable/Disable a smooth transition between day and night
; 0 will cause a direct change from day to night screen temperature.
; 1 will gradually increase or decrease the screen temperature.
transition=1
; Set the screen brightness. Default is 1.0.
;brightness=0.9
; It is also possible to use different settings for day and night
; since version 1.8.
;brightness-day=0.7
;brightness-night=0.4
; Set the screen gamma (for all colors, or each color channel
; individually)
gamma=0.8
;gamma=0.8:0.7:0.8
; This can also be set individually for day and night since
; version 1.10.
;gamma-day=0.8:0.7:0.8
;gamma-night=0.6
; Set the location-provider: 'geoclue', 'geoclue2', 'manual'
; type 'redshift -l list' to see possible values.
; The location provider settings are in a different section.
location-provider=manual
; Set the adjustment-method: 'randr', 'vidmode'
; type 'redshift -m list' to see all possible values.
; 'randr' is the preferred method, 'vidmode' is an older API.
; but works in some cases when 'randr' does not.
; The adjustment method settings are in a different section.
adjustment-method=randr
; Configuration of the location-provider:
; type 'redshift -l PROVIDER:help' to see the settings.
; ex: 'redshift -l manual:help'
; Keep in mind that longitudes west of Greenwich (e.g. the Americas)
; are negative numbers.
[manual]
lat=48.1
lon=11.6
; Configuration of the adjustment-method
; type 'redshift -m METHOD:help' to see the settings.
; ex: 'redshift -m randr:help'
; In this example, randr is configured to adjust screen 1.
; Note that the numbering starts from 0, so this is actually the
; second screen. If this option is not specified, Redshift will try
; to adjust all screens.
[randr]
screen=1
It doesn't work.
When I type Redshift I get the following message :
Screen 1 could not be found.
Failed to start adjustment method randr.
My distro is Linux Mint XFCE.
EDIT : If I delete "screen=1" then it works, but it keeps flickering from dark to light to dark to light, lasting about 2-3 seconds each time. Why is that and what can I do about it?
vinivosh
commented
2 months ago
Describe the bug
Redshift won't start. I added the following to the script at ~/.config/redshift.conf as suggested:
It doesn't work.
When I type Redshift I get the following message :
Screen 1 could not be found. Failed to start adjustment method randr.
My distro is Linux Mint XFCE.
EDIT : If I delete "screen=1" then it works, but it keeps flickering from dark to light to dark to light, lasting about 2-3 seconds each time. Why is that and what can I do about it?