I’ve released redshift 1.4 today. The source is available from the launchpad project page as usual. Packages for Ubuntu Lucid are available in the PPA. There’s lots of exiting new stuff in this release thanks to several contributors: Francesco Marella, Dan Helfman and all the translators.
- Command line options for color adjustment methods changed. Procedure for setting specific screen (-s) or CRTC (-c) changed. See
redshift -hfor more information. - Automatically obtain the location from the GNOME Clock applet if possible.
- Add application indicator GUI (by Francesco Marella) (fixes #588086).
- Add reset option (-x) that removes any color adjustment applied. Based on patch by Dan Helfman (fixes #590777).
configureoptions for GUI changed; seeconfigure --helpfor more information.- New translations: German (Jan-Christoph Borchardt), Italian (Andrea Amoroso), Czech (clever_fox), Spanish (Fernando Ossandon), Finnish (Ilari Oras).
UPDATE: 1.4.1 released. It includes mono icons for Ubuntu (by Joern Konopka); the status icon toggles to show whether Redshift is on or off; and it has updated translations: Spanish (Fernando Ossandon), Russian (Чистый).
Wow, great!
Thank you _so_ much!
Can you tell me why the colour temperature is different from default with redshift? Is there any use in this?
By the way, what do you think about the idea of grabbing weather information from gnome-clock and adjust the temperature automatically according to if the sun shines (5500k?) or if it’s cloudy (6500k?)?
Great! But I can’t seem to see the tray icon for this.
I’ve got a standard Ubuntu setup (10.04) but I don’t have gnome-clock installed and I can’t find it via apt-cache search. I’m setting lat:lon manually but FYI.
Also, it’d be nice to have some idea of what the methods mean. Is randr preferable to vidmode or the other way around?
My eyes and I thank you for writing redshift
To the anon asking why this is a desired feature:
Not to get too much into it, but the blue spectrum has an effect on our brains, raising alertness in a sense. Staring at the screen late at night has the tendency to keep you awake, ruining your sleep patterns, possibly causing insomnia (like me).
This program increasing the red gamma levels on your monitor through out the day. Late at night your screen will be fairly red, but it is SOOO much easier on the eyes (try turning it off at midnight and your eyes will feel assaulted!).
Whether a placebo effect or not, I have found this redshift program a HUGE help to my sleep patterns. Prior to installing it, I was up til 4 or 5 am every night. Now, I am normally in bed by 12-1am, 2am at the latest.
Thanks redshift team!!
>> By the way, what do you think about the idea of grabbing weather information from gnome-clock and adjust the temperature automatically according to if the sun shines (5500k?) or if it’s cloudy (6500k?)?
It will be awesome!! And thank you for “tool for health”
@anonymous: I don’t think it’s worth the effort.
@Jim: The clock applet is in the upper right corner of your screen. Click it, then open locations, click edit and add your city. RANDR is the method of the future but is not supported by certain drivers (e.g. closed source nvidia driver). RANDR can be used to adjust individual displays if you have more than one connected.
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Too danger-look red mono icon in v1.4.1. Maybe colors like Rhythmbox play/pause states will be more clear. And icon “Toggle” in menu looks like no icon at all for removed applications in GNOME. Thank you again!
would it be possible release a package version of 1.4 for Karmic in the PPA?
@pt: I’ll make a Karmic release if I have time, but I won’t promise anything.
Jon I would be grateful if you could answer this.
when I start gtk-redshift with this line: “gtk-redshift -l 40.966667:28.816668 -t 6500:5500″ I get this “Failed to start adjustment method randr.”.
Is it possible to fix it? The other method works ok but I would like it to use randr if possible.
Thanks
@Cosku: If redshift fails to use RANDR it is because your graphics driver doesn’t support gamma adjustment with RANDR. There’s no solution to that.
In multi-monitor setups the second monitor is not affected using vidmode. Is there a workaround?
@Marcus: VidMode doesn’t support multiple monitors. Use RANDR if possible.
very useful!! Thank you