Redshift / nightlight software for Xfce

Lysander666 · 03-29-2023, 05:57 AM

Can anyone recommend any nightlight software like Redshift for Debian 11 Xfce?

It appears it doesn't work with Wayland. I have tried other programs like sct but they don't work either, they all say they can't connect to Wayland.

Is there any software like Redshift that works in Debian Xfce?

OR is it possible to return to Xorg on Xfce?

pan64 · 03-29-2023, 06:49 AM

probably this helps: https://groups.google.com/g/linux.de.../c/wLnW6zp5rmk

Lysander666 · 03-29-2023, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

probably this helps: https://groups.google.com/g/linux.de.../c/wLnW6zp5rmk

Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn't. They just recommend using GNOME or Plasma instead.

gammastep, which they also recommend, doesn't work either. It just says this:

Code:

Error: Could not connect to wayland display, exiting 
Error: Failed to start adjustment method: wayland

pan64 · 03-29-2023, 07:02 AM

there is a link to a git repo at the bottom, that may help too.
https://github.com/jonls/redshift

Lysander666 · 03-29-2023, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

there is a link to a git repo at the bottom, that may help too.
https://github.com/jonls/redshift

Thanks, but that link also says:

Quote:

The Wayland protocol does not support Redshift. There is currently no way for Redshift to adjust the color temperature in Wayland.

They suggest changing DE to GNOME or Plasma. I am not going to do that, I need something that works with Xfce.

Failing that, it would be great to use X11 instead of Wayland for Xfce 4.16, but I can't work out how to do that either.

Lysander666 · 03-29-2023, 09:26 AM

OK, I have solved this. It is nothing to do with Xfce. Debian 11 uses Wayland by default when it can.

The solution was to switch back to X11 in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf