Redshift under Xfce making screen twice as dark when restarting x
Or rather, exponentially. This is an interesting issue: I have configured Redshift to start when x starts on a second-hand laptop I have acquired. The weird thing is that if I restart the x session, logout/login, Redshift is now twice as dark as before. If I restart x again, the screen is darker still and almost unreadable. Is there any way to stop Redshift doing this? It's not a problem under my netbook which runs LXDE.
Some info - redshift.conf: Code:
; Global settings for redshift Code:
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Well, I have uninstalled Redshift for now. This display is funny and never really looks good with it, no matter the settings. For now I'm just adjusting the brightness.
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Well, I can confirm this is an issue. Not on restart but on logging out and logging in. I have brightness set to 4500 at night which looks great on this machine, but logging out and logging in will make Redshift twice as dark. Nothing in the config file I can see which might explain why. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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I use redshift (my own SlackBuild) on Slackware64-current with Cinnamon and never have any issues.
I am using geoclue2 with auto-location and a lot more compile time options. I can set up my test rig later tonight and play around with some other DE's and get back to this thread probably tomorrow. |
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Thanks, Skaendo. Let me know how it goes. I think this is an issue with the Xfce session manager, I also run Redshift on my LXDE Slack netbook and it's never a problem. If I logout and login in LXDE, Redshift just restarts, but in Xfce it just adds the darkness setting to the that of the last session.
I wonder if unticking "save session" on the logout screen would solve this issue in Xfce. I'm on a different machine now though. |
I just did a fresh full Slackware64-current install and installed (in this order):
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libdaemon All default settings; 6500k-day, 4500k-night I have logged out (to console and kdm) and logged back in many times no problem. I have "Save session for future logins" checked (default) in XFCE. Nothing in your config looks like it should have any effect like you are experiencing. My only guess is that LXDE is doing something weird to it (maybe hardware related with brightness settings?) or try using geoclue2 and auto-location. If you decide to try geoclue2, I would recommend to use 2.4.7 because 2.4.10 has some permission issues somewhere that I have not yet the desire to figure out. |
Skaendo - thank you so much for this. I haven't had a chance yet to try geoclue2 but will do very shortly. Thanks for your help so far, I will report back.
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Another note, On my Dell ('07 Inspiron 1520 / Intel GM965 graphics) I have to enable and set it to 'vidmode' instead of 'randr'. That might be worth a try as well.
Without looking at my build script, I think that vidmode might need to be enabled at build time. |
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