Redshift adjusts the color temperature according to the position of the sun. A different color temperature is set during night and daytime.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD

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Redshift adjusts the color temperature according to the position of the sun. A different color temperature is set during night and daytime.

Background application that adjusts screen gamma, making the colors appear warmer at night, reducing strain on your eyes.


The app is free on F-Droid and on GitHub but you can buy it on the Google Play Store to support the developer.





Setting the color temp of the screen really only requires about 40 lines of C (80 or so all inclusive). sct is a crude utility which does roughly that. I’d say exactly that, but some of the calculations aren’t actually exact.
Small GTK GUI application to set contrast, brightness and gamma for wayland compositors which support the wlr-gamma-control protocol extension. Basically this is the example from here: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/examples/gamma-control.
