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This is now built into GNOME. You can set it under Displays

akerro 8y ago
There also is Plasma5 native widget to control it automatically.
mariushn 8y ago
But it can't decrease brightness: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784810 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784810
- mort96 8y ago
  Oh, that's a bummer. One of the main reasons I use redshift on my laptop is that the backlight doesn't go dim enough at night.
  - mariushn 8y ago
    Please add a note to that bug report, so they can see more people need this.
    - mort96 8y ago
      To be honest, I've pretty much given up on Gnome. They're removing features I depend on left and right, don't respond to issues, and from everything I've heard, their technology stack seems to be a disaster. I'm happy just using KDE Plasma, XFCE and i3wm and not having to care about whatever Gnome is doing (except when changes to GTK affects the rest of the ecosystem, like their client side decorations which make Gnome apps look out of place).
      - mariushn 8y ago
        Thanks for sharing. Feeling the same, but didn't switch yet.
- craftoman 8y ago
  > But it can't decrease brightness Who said that? You can always decrease brightness on a Linux laptop since the first gnome, I myself have gnome3 installed on 2 laptops and the brightness buttons are working perfectly fine.
  - lozf 8y ago
    He's saying that the Gnome night-mode doesn't adjust brightness ... not that it can't be changed at all.
  - dokem 8y ago
    I could never adjust the brightness of my laptop under Linux. So many people defend Linux to the point of denying people's first hand experience with it.
    - aetherspawn 8y ago
      Didn’t work on my old Toshiba Satellite either. It wasn’t a particularly unpopular piece of hardware or anything.. actually it couldn’t even read the battery % due to an ACPI issue.
  - mariushn 8y ago
    The buttons do work. But, some monitors are still too bright at night even with that brightness set to minimum, and hardware monitor controls set to minimum too. Redshift manages to decrease brightness even further.

There also is Plasma5 native widget to control it automatically.

But it can't decrease brightness: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784810 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784810

mort96 8y ago
Oh, that's a bummer. One of the main reasons I use redshift on my laptop is that the backlight doesn't go dim enough at night.
- mariushn 8y ago
  Please add a note to that bug report, so they can see more people need this.
  - mort96 8y ago
    To be honest, I've pretty much given up on Gnome. They're removing features I depend on left and right, don't respond to issues, and from everything I've heard, their technology stack seems to be a disaster. I'm happy just using KDE Plasma, XFCE and i3wm and not having to care about whatever Gnome is doing (except when changes to GTK affects the rest of the ecosystem, like their client side decorations which make Gnome apps look out of place).
    - mariushn 8y ago
      Thanks for sharing. Feeling the same, but didn't switch yet.
craftoman 8y ago
> But it can't decrease brightness Who said that? You can always decrease brightness on a Linux laptop since the first gnome, I myself have gnome3 installed on 2 laptops and the brightness buttons are working perfectly fine.
- lozf 8y ago
  He's saying that the Gnome night-mode doesn't adjust brightness ... not that it can't be changed at all.
- dokem 8y ago
  I could never adjust the brightness of my laptop under Linux. So many people defend Linux to the point of denying people's first hand experience with it.
  - aetherspawn 8y ago
    Didn’t work on my old Toshiba Satellite either. It wasn’t a particularly unpopular piece of hardware or anything.. actually it couldn’t even read the battery % due to an ACPI issue.
- mariushn 8y ago
  The buttons do work. But, some monitors are still too bright at night even with that brightness set to minimum, and hardware monitor controls set to minimum too. Redshift manages to decrease brightness even further.