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BruceMcL

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Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 13

Xfce, Display Profiles, and “Night Shift”

Is there a “Night Shift” app that works well with ICC display profiles and Xfce?

I don’t have any trouble getting my ICC display profile to work with Xfce. I can apply it with DisplayCal, and now in 4.14 I can do so with the built-in Color Profile preference. At night I would like to lower the color temperature of my profile from 6500 to 3500 K.

I can do this on other devices in my house and on other Linux distributions (Budgie, Elementary, LMDE). I have not been successful on Xfce.

I tried redshift with Xfce, but that disables my display profile. During the day I can see that my display profile is ignored - everything is too blue. I was able to make redshift play nice with my display profile on LMDE (Cinnamon desktop environment) with a custom redshift.conf file. However, that file does not help with Xfce.

Is anybody using a “Night Shift” type app along with their ICC display profile in Xfce? Right now I’m running Xubuntu 19.10 Daily on a test partition. I’m willing to try another distribution if I can get the result I want.

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: Xfce, Display Profiles, and “Night Shift”

You have some info in this Redshift GitHub issue: Allow ICC profile as parameter.

Edit: Please tell us the results!

Last edited by alcornoqui (2019-08-29 07:47:44)

BruceMcL

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Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 13

Re: Xfce, Display Profiles, and “Night Shift”

Been there, done that. That’s how I got redshift working with Cinnamon desktop environment.

Is anybody using a “Night Shift” type app along with their ICC display profile in Xfce?

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Xfce, Display Profiles, and “Night Shift”

Using the color-profiles functionality is currently a manual method. I'm using redshift, but its a separate component not tied to this new functionality. Current plans for the 4.16 release are to integrate the color-profiles into xfce4-power-manager to provide a true night-light type functionality in Xfce.

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BruceMcL

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Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 13

Re: Xfce, Display Profiles, and “Night Shift”

Thank you. I look forward to trying Xfce 4.16.