Redshift transition from day-night extremely slow
This is one of the only issues I'm having with the new build - Redshift again. I have it set to 6500 in the day and 4500 at night. Both look great, but the transition period is the issue.
Presently it's 21.26 and dark here. About ten mins ago Redshift started an extremely slow transition from day to night, which will take it about 45 mins, as it did yesterday. Normally I'm used to the transition taking about 2-3 seconds. It's now at 88% of the transition. I've tried to see what the issue is and why it can't do it quicker. I think the timing is not a problem so much as the speed. Here is redshift.conf: Code:
; Global settings for redshift |
Should this line be changed to "gamma 0.9" instead?
gamma=0.9[Return] [Catalog] [Top] 19 / 13 / 17 / 3 [Upd |
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I'm starting to think this issue may be related to the hardware clock. This computer used to run Debian but I have trouble setting the timezone correctly in Slackware. I changed OSs only a few days ago.
e.g. Currently I have the timezone as GMT +2 which makes no sense, but it gives me the right time, even though the hw clock time is correct. Really in Slackware the timezone should be Europe/London in timeconfig, but that makes the time two hours behind what it should be. I'm going to try syncing the hardware clock to the system time as local time or UTC and seeing if that makes any difference. |
If you use KDE you can set it by right-click the clock in the panel and then select "Adjust date and time". There you can set the timezone by selecting this tab. When applying it you might get a KDE error, but it works anyway for me.
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This issue was mostly caused by the hardware clock being set to the wrong time. I had to sync it via
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# ntpdate pool.ntp.org https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ha...tem_local_time I am guessing this 45 min transition is intentional. Now that the clock is set correctly [and the timezone to Europe/London] Redshift starts to darken the screen at about 8.30pm when it starts to get dark and now, at 9.15, there is 13% of the transition left to go and it looks great. I notice a minimal change in the old config file from Code:
; 1 will gradually apply the new screen temperature over a couple of seconds. to Code:
; 1 will gradually increase or decrease the screen temperature. So I'm guessing this is something to do with a newer version of Redshift. |
My redshift changes quite fast. Which redshift version do you use?
redshift -V redshift 1.11 |
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I have upgraded to v.1.12 now as well and will check if the transition time has changed.
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All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:20 AM. |