QRedshift Cinnamon

A Cinnamon applet that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

Original Repository: https://github.com/raphaelquintao/QRedshiftCinnamon

Installation

curl https://github.com/raphaelquintao/QRedshiftCinnamon/raw/master/install.sh -sSfL | bash 

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Features

• Powerfull Interface.
• Scroll actions on panel icon.
• Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Temperature from 1000k to 12000k.
• Gamma from 0.5 to 5.
• Smooth transition between day and night.
• Independent of redshift package.

Why development moved away from Cinnamon Spices

Starting with version 2.x, the applet no longer depends on the original Redshift project. Instead, it uses QRedshift, a dedicated backend that I developed specifically for this applet. Here you can find Why I Wrote QRedshift.

Unfortunately, the Cinnamon Spices distribution model doesn't allow shipping prebuilt binaries. The recommended approach is to have the applet install a C toolchain and development dependencies, then download the source code and compile the backend on the user's machine at runtime.

I completely understand why that policy exists.

However, this compilation approach doesn't align with the goals of this project. I want it to have a seamless experience.

Therefore, I sadly decided to move development away from Cinnamon Spices in June 2024. Coincidentally, that exact month marked the 5th anniversary of when I first published the applet back in June 2019.

The version currently available on Cinnamon Spices will remain there, although I don't know for how long.

Changelog

• 2.0.4
  • Fixed a bug when changing latitude/longitude manually.
  • Clicking and dragging the slider now follows the step parameter.
  • Added support for the most common architectures
    • x86_64 - 64-bit x86
    • i386, i486, i586, i686 - 32-bit x86
    • aarch64 - 64-bit ARM
    • armv7l - 32-bit ARM
    • armv5tel - ARMv5
    • mips64el - 64-bit MIPS (Little Endian)
    • mipsel - 32-bit MIPS (Little Endian)
    • powerpc64le - 64-bit PowerPC (Little Endian)
    • s390x - IBM System/390 (64-bit)
  • Updated Danish and Portuguese(Brazil) Translations
• 2.0.3
  • Max temperature increased to 12000k
• 2.0.2
  • Added auto-update based on GitHub releases.
  • New icons for sunset and sunrise.
• 2.0.1
  • New icons.
  • Improved interface.
  • Architecture check and notify.
  • Location is back and better.
• 2.0.0
  • Original repository renamed to QRedshiftCinnamon.
  • Completely disabled on Wayland (wayland cinnamon compositor don't support gamma ramps yet).
  • Removed remote location option (I don't think anyone uses it. Can be implemented in the future if there are enough requests).
  • Removed dependency of redshift package.
  • Extension now uses its own backend application: QRedshift CLI.
  • Added an option to configure step for shortcuts.

Old

• 1.7.7
  • Added smooth transition to brightness.
• 1.7.6
  • Added option to activate as soon as Cinnamon starts up.
• 1.7.5
  • Update messages on Arch.
  • Add icons for Cinnamon 5.8
• 1.7.4
  • Added new translations.
• 1.7.3
  • Fixed small bug on smooth transition.
  • Fixed messages when not using manual night time.
• 1.7.2
  • Fixed sliders on Cinnamon 5.4
  • Automatically check for redshift-gtk and notify to remove it.
  • Smooth transition between day and night.
• 1.7.1
  • Auto update is only used when night is enabled.
• 1.7.0
  • Fixed issues with asynchronous command calls.
    • Main redshift call reverted to synchronous, so the cinnamon will show the annoying message again: This applet contains function calls that could potentially cause Cinnamon to crash or freeze.
    • I noticed that on some (slow?) computers many asynchronous calls cause the application to freeze.
• 1.6.0
  • Added manual night time option.
  • Fixed some issues with Debian.
• 1.5.5
  • Fixed icon blinking when using symbolic icon.
• 1.5.4
  • Fixed: "This applet contains function calls that could potentially cause Cinnamon to crash or freeze."
• 1.5.3
  • Fixed some issues with Debian.
    • Automatically disable redshift default service.
  • Removed default keyboard shortcuts.
• 1.5.2
  • Added keyboard shortcut to increase brightness <Control>Page_Up
  • Added keyboard shortcut to decrease brightness <Control>Page_Down
  • Added keyboard shortcut to increase temperature <Control><Shift>Page_Up
  • Added keyboard shortcut to decrease temperature <Control><Shift>Page_Down
  • Added support to lower gamma.
  • Added option to use a symbolic icon.
• 1.5.1
  • Update night brightness on scrolling.
  • Added support to version 4.6.
• 1.5
  • Added keyboard shortcut to toggle On/Off <Control>End
  • Added localization support.
• 1.4
  • Fixed icon scale.
  • Added support to version 4.3 and 4.4

Translations

If you want to submit some translations please make it on the original repository. It's a lot easier to me keep it synced.

Flag	Language	Code	Translator
	Bulgarian	bg	@spacy01
	Danish	da	@Alan01
	German	de	@OzzieIsaacs
	Spanish (Spain)	es	@haggen88
	Spanish (Mexico)	es_MX	@RichLuna
	French	fr	@claudiux
	Hungarian	hu	@kami911
	Italian	it	@eperulli
	Dutch	nl	@Vistaus
	Occitan	oc	@Mejans
	Polish	pl	@szedar14
	Portuguese (Portugal)	pt	@hugok79
	Portuguese (Brazil)	pt_BR	@raphaelquintao
	Romanian	ro	@AndreiMiculita
	Russian	ru	@aivazoff
	Slovak	sk	@prescott66
	Swedish	sv	@eson57
	Turkish	tr	@kelebek333
	Chinese	zh_CN	@Slinet6056

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