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Redshift 1.7

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I finally had some time to throw a new release of Redshift together. The most important change, for most of you, is probably the Geoclue location provider by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre. The old GNOME clock location provider has stopped working for many, as Ubuntu no longer includes a clock applet in the unity desktop. This is fixed now with this new location provider, which should work right out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Natty systems.

Other news are:

  • Allow brightness to be adjusted (-b).
  • Provide option to set color temperature directly (Joe Hillenbrand).
  • Add option to show program version (-V).
  • Add configure.ac option to install ubuntu icons. They will no longer be installed by default (Francesco Marella).
  • config: Look in %userprofile%/.config/redshift.conf on windows platform.
  • Fix: w32gdi: Obtain a new DC handle on every adjustment. This fixes a bug where redshift stops updating the screen.

Redshift 1.6 released

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Finally, a new release of Redshift, and at the same time packages have been built for the newly released Ubuntu Maverick (to be found in the PPA as usual). There is a bunch of bug fixes in this release and some hastily thrown-together configuration file support. It works, but there is no documentation other than the example at the end of this post. Here is the list of changes:
  • Support for optional configuration file (fixes #590722).
  • Add man page for redshift written by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (fixes #582196).
  • Explain in help output that 6500K is the neutral color temperature (fixes #627113).
  • Fix: Handle multiple instances of the GNOME clock applet; contributed by Francesco Marella (fixes #610860).
  • Fix: Redshift crashes when VidMode fails (fixes #657451).
  • Fix: Toggle menu item should not be of class gtk.ImageMenuItem (fixes #620355).
  • New translations and translation updates: Lithuanian (Aurimas Fišeras); Brazilian Portuguese (Matteus Sthefano Leite da Silva); Finnish (Jani Välimaa); Italian (Simone Sandri); French (Emilien Klein); Russian (Anton Chernyshov).

Looking forward to 1.6.1

I hope to release Redshift 1.6.1 before the end of the month. It will include some small bug fixes, updated documentation and updated translations, but for this to happen I will need your help:

  • Please help get the translations finished for 1.6.1 if you are fluent in one of the languages that Redshift has been translated to. The text strings will not change before 1.6.1.
  • Are you familiar with writing man pages? Please help document the configuration file syntax (#662632).

Configuration file

Redshift will look for a configuration file in “~/.config/redshift.conf” (or in XDG_CONFIG_HOME if that has been set). A different configuration file can be loaded with the command line option “-c”. Here is an example:

; Global settings
[redshift]
temp-day=5700
temp-night=3500
transition=1
gamma=0.8:0.7:0.8
location-provider=manual
adjustment-method=vidmode

; The location provider and adjustment method settings
; are in their own sections.
[manual]
lat=55.0
lon=12.0

; In this example screen 1 is adjusted by vidmode. Note
; that the numbering starts from 0, so this is actually
; the second screen.
[vidmode]
screen=1

Redshift 1.4 released

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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 -h for 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).
  • configure options for GUI changed; see configure --help for 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).