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Night Light
I'm trying to find a night light that works when using the Cosmic DE. Redshift does not support Wayland and Gammastep is not working.
Should mention I'm using an Nvidia card.
Simply not supported at the moment. Will be part of our larger color-management story.
Just adding that I am also waiting for this. It's currently the only roadblock left to making Cosmic my full-time driver.
I really hope this gets implemented soon as this is the last thing before I fully switch to cosmic
I've already switched to Cosmic as daily driver, but need this feature to be done soon. I know yall are working on it, thanks!!
Now that cosmic has added support for colour blind users, I assume this will be very similar to implement?
I've been waiting for this for so long, then I just now realized my monitors have a night light feature 😂
Well, it takes 5 button presses on each of my 3 monitors to toggle it on every evening and off every morning, but it's better than nothing.
I think this is the one feature preventing me from switching to cosmic right now. I always run a mild red filter.
Hoping we can see this soon. I saw on the roadmap that this feature isn't going to be considered until the release of Epoch 1? Is that still the case?
Any update on this? My corneas have been burning like a vampire in sunlight, and my optometrist is trying to prescribe that I use Windows!!!
PLEASE don't make it so I have to use Windows!!!!!! It's depressing!
Tried that, doesn't work. But if you have external monitors with a night light feature, that turns out to work well, even though it's a little annoying to toggle.
The workaround consists in running gammastep manually before launching cosmic with start-cosmic. It's not ideal because you lose the automatic session startup with greetd, but that actually make cosmic usable at evening and night time.
The workaround consists in running gammastep manually before launching cosmic with start-cosmic. It's not ideal because you lose the automatic session startup with greetd, but that actually make cosmic usable at evening and night time.
@rmarquis could you please provide more details on how you run it?
asking because you can't actually run gammastep before start-cosmic per-se (there's no wayland running at that stage), then when the full DE is bootstrapped it seems to be late to run it, i.e. where do you hook gammastep invocation?
thanks!
Since we will be waiting for more robust color-management for some time I will provide my workaround. I've made small utility here: https://github.com/nedimzecic/gammad which can help users with Intel GPU, probably AMD too. This obviously won't work with Nvidia. The idea is that through DRM you can modify gamma ramp and this should be done before greeter starts. Therefore it has to be injected in /usr/bin/cosmic-greeter-start. There are several downsides of this approach: whenever cosmic-greeter package is updated it will overwrite cosmic-greeter-start script, if you wish to change temperature reboot is required and nvidia is not supported.
@rmarquis could you please provide more details on how you run it? asking because you can't actually run
gammastepbeforestart-cosmicper-se (there's no wayland running at that stage), then when the full DE is bootstrapped it seems to be late to run it, i.e. where do you hookgammastepinvocation? thanks!
Sorry, I missed your message. I do not understand how it works, but indeed gammastep works before running start-cosmic. I'm using greetd-agreety (default console based) instead of comsic-greeter, if that helps. This might also be related to some specific hardware setup (nVidia/integrated Intel in my case).
probably AMD too
Just writing to confirm that it, in fact, works with AMD, tested on IGPU with ryzen 7 5700U
There are several downsides of this approach: whenever cosmic-greeter package is updated it will overwrite cosmic-greeter-start script, if you wish to change temperature reboot is required and nvidia is not supported.
Just wanted to confirm that you can also logout and login back again, instead of rebooting.
I've used F.lux for decades (on Windows) and they have a linux version. Any chance it works for Cosmic? https://justgetflux.com/linux.html
Night Light is probably the most urgent accessibility feature lacking in Cosmic
We've made it clear that we will work on this feature after Epoch 1. Please stop spamming this thread, as doing so will not change the planned time frames. I will have to lock this thread if it continues to be so noisy.
