QRedshift

A Cinnamon applet that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

Original Repository: https://github.com/raphaelquintao/QRedshift

Translations

If you want to submit some translations please make it on the original repository. It's a lot easier to me keep it synced.

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Features

• Powerfull Interface.
• Scroll actions on panel icon.
• Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Temperature from 1000k to 9000k.
• Gamma from 0.5 to 5.
• Smooth transition between day and night.
• Custom location option.
• Ready to Redshift 1.12

Installation

1. Install Redshift:
   • Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint: sudo apt-get install redshift
   • Red Hat/Cent OS/Fedora: sudo dnf install redshift
2. Download zip from this link and extract .zip archive to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets
   • Or automatically download it from Cinnamon Applets download tab.
3. Enable the applet in Cinnamon settings
4. Make sure you remove redshift-gtk sudo apt-get remove redshift-gtk
5. ~/.config/redshift.conf may conflict with this applet, it is highly recommended removing it.
   • Applet will show a warning to remove it.
6. Make sure you disable redshift service systemctl mask --user redshift.service
   • Applet will automatically attempt to disable the default redshift service.
   • If you want to enable it again, run systemctl unmask --user redshift.service

Changelog

• 1.7.4
  • Added new translations.
• 1.7.3
  • Fixed small bug on smooth transition.
  • Fixed messages when not using manual night time.
• 1.7.2
  • Fixed sliders on Cinnamon 5.4
  • Automatically check for redshift-gtk and notify to remove it.
  • Smooth transition between day and night.
• 1.7.1
  • Auto update is only used when night is enabled.
• 1.7.0
  • Fixed issues with asynchronous command calls.
    • Main redshift call reverted to synchronous, so the cinnamon will show the annoying message again: This applet contains function calls that could potentially cause Cinnamon to crash or freeze.
    • I noticed that on some (slow?) computers many asynchronous calls cause the application to freeze.
• 1.6.0
  • Added manual night time option.
  • Fixed some issues with Debian.
• 1.5.5
  • Fixed icon blinking when using symbolic icon.
• 1.5.4
  • Fixed: "This applet contains function calls that could potentially cause Cinnamon to crash or freeze."
• 1.5.3
  • Fixed some issues with Debian.
    • Automatically disable redshift default service.
  • Removed default keyboard shortcuts.
• 1.5.2
  • Added keyboard shortcut to increase brightness <Control>Page_Up
  • Added keyboard shortcut to decrease brightness <Control>Page_Down
  • Added keyboard shortcut to increase temperature <Control><Shift>Page_Up
  • Added keyboard shortcut to decrease temperature <Control><Shift>Page_Down
  • Added support to lower gamma.
  • Added option to use a symbolic icon.
• 1.5.1
  • Update night brightness on scrolling.
  • Added support to version 4.6.
• 1.5
  • Added keyboard shortcut to toggle On/Off <Control>End
  • Added localization support.
• 1.4
  • Fixed icon scale.
  • Added support to version 4.3 and 4.4

Translations

Language	Translator
Bulgarian	@spacy01
Chinese	@Slinet6056
Danish	@Alan01
Dutch	@Vistaus
French	@claudiux
German	@OzzieIsaacs
Hungarian	@kami911
Italian	@eperulli
Occitan	@Mejans
Polish	@szedar14
Portuguese (Brazil)	@raphaelquintao
Portuguese (Portugal)	@hugok79
Romanian	@AndreiMiculita
Russian	@aivazoff
Spanish (Mexico)	@RichLuna
Spanish (Spain)	@haggen88
Slovak	@prescott66
Swedish	@eson57
Turkish	@kelebek333

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