The brightness and gamma applet was a nice workaround for a while but stopped working last week, it increases gamma levels to 100% but doesn’t disable the night light anymore; the gnome extension caffeine sounded perfect but after installing I cant open settings/config/manual, there’s just a tray icon that doesn’t seem to do anything.
any ideas?
I have a toggle for
reshiftthat turns it off or on with a hotkey. I’m not sure if that helps at all, but it’s what I’ve done for years.thanks, I still have a hotkey for it from before I got the tray icon that’s a single click, but after the simplicity and reliability of the brightness and gamma applet automation, I really want to find another automatic solution.
Umm, I’ve been running Mint since 2017, close to a decade now…
WTF is Night Light? How is it intended to work?
Is it installed by default these days? What is the package name? Have you tried to run the man (manual) command on it in the terminal?
It’s Mint’s built-in version of redshift, it reduces blue light at night by tinting your screen orange to be easier on the eyes. It is installed by default on all cinnamon versions of Mint. It is not included with Xfce (not sure about MATE).
If you want something similar on Xfce, you’d have to install Redshift and manually configure it with either a schedule or a location for it to work automatically, as it has been abandoned and the automatic location finder is broken.
I think it’s an included feature, with a little tray icon to turn it on and off easily. just search “night” in the LM search bar.
Night Light disables blue light according to a schedule or automatically according to your time zone.
I haven’t checked the manual, how do I check the package name? nightlight@cinnamon.org, is that ut?
Uhh, is this the project page?
If so, 404 error, apparently the project has been removed or abandoned/discontinued or something 🤷♂️
nope, not that. thanks though.
I’m still not familiar with this extension, but I’ll see what I can find…
- https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2236/night-theme-switcher/
- https://nightthemeswitcher.romainvigier.fr/
I do find this part mildly concerning, as it entangles a browser extension with a desktop extension…
To control GNOME Shell extensions using this site you must install GNOME Shell integration that consists of two parts: browser extension and native host messaging application.
I’d look more into it, but my current daily runner is recently a different breed of Linux over the past 3 weeks, Termux+XFCE
I came across those and also found the two part extension installation kind of weird, and I couldn’t figure out how to get it to work correctly anyway.
I think at this point I’ve looked up every solution available via DDG, haha.
if you don’t use the standard night light in Linux Mint at all, you might want to look into it, it’s super convenient late at night and relaxing on the eyes.
