Hi Redshift isn’t maintained anymore and lately redshift-gtk doesnt start anymore (something about a python circular dependancy).
What should we use?
It is probably a good idea to mention what Redshift actually is, since it’s far from the top result in a search, and a lot of people associate that word with an AWS product by the same name. Wikipedia describes the Redshift you presumably mean as:
an application that adjusts the computer display’s color temperature based upon the time of day.
It also mentions that gammastep is a more recent fork, but it has not had any commit activity for 2.5 years, so gammastep might be abandoned as well.
gammastep works just fine for me on sway, and it appears the maintainer is still replying to issues on that repo. i wouldn’t worry too much just yet.
that said, it seems to not work for hyprland, so for anyone using that, look for something else
gammastep
Gammastep’s last commiyt is also from 2 years ago. Seems unmaintained to me.
Use it and redshift anyway, what kind of exploitable vuln could possibly be found in it?
If you use Linux Mint, it has its own redshift implementation in the new release 22.1.
I’m using Arch btw
I do too (endeavour os), but I prefer Mint. It just works, and it doesn’t break as easily. All my laptops are mint, all my desktops are debian-testing (the most stable rolling release around), and I have one laptop where I play around with other distros for fun.
If using wayland: wlsunset
I usually only use it via command line, but that’s disappointing to hear that it’s no longer supported. I have used redshift-gtk in the past but I could never keep it functioning for very long, and I prefer KDE. It seems every alternative wants to automate it to synchronize with sunrise and sunset, but 90% of the time I use it is simply because my eyes are already aching. I wish there was another with an easy access on/off switch. The built-in functions require going into settings each time I want to change it and that’s just no good.
f.lux ?
wl-gammarelay-rs has worked for me. This is a daemon controlled through dbus, but there are some applets listed in the readme as well as a script in the repo for adjusting based on the time of day.
Use dark mode at night and you won’t need Redshift any more. It’s only relevant for white screens.
PS: This IS in fact the optimal solution - if not for you then for others. I used Redshift for years, suffering its periodic breakages, babysitting the timezone issue, and it was worth it, because a retina-searing reddish-white screen is better than a retina-searing whitish-white screen. But a dark screen is SO much better for my eyes than either of those. I can’t believe I waited so many years to do that and I’m never going back.
Welcome to the dark side ! Once you have seen it, you can’t unseen it ! White will always be to bright and your eyes will cry blood on every screen/webpage that doesn’t have a dark mode !
