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I installed Redshift 1.11 on Elementary OS Freya but I noticed that the methods list only mentioned the dummy method (which just displays the target gamma in the terminal). 

$ redshift -m list
Available adjustment methods:
  dummy

This makes it kind of useless... So I cloned the source, ran ./bootstrap and then ./configure. This indicated that it wouldn't have any of the adjustment methods: 

Adjustment methods:
DRM:        no
RANDR:      no
VidMode:        no
Quartz (OSX):   no
WinGDI (Windows):   no

Above it, it indicated missing dependencies:

checking whether to enable RANDR method... missing dependencies
checking whether to enable VidMode method... missing dependencies

The github repo's Hacking docs lists the dependencies:

  • libxcb, libxcb-randr (Optional, for RandR support)
  • libX11, libXxf86vm (Optional, for VidMode support)

These packages I need for Randr or vidmode are not found though. 

$ sudo apt-get install libxcb libxcb-randr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libxcb
E: Unable to locate package libxcb-randr

$ sudo apt-get install libX11 libXxf86vm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libX11
E: Unable to locate package libXxf86vm

I'm not sure how to continue. Does anyone have any tips / leads?

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  • f.lux is not good for you?
    – png2378
    Jul 2, 2016 at 16:24
  • @MaximTaranov good point, but I was trying to use a opensource solution.
    – Peter Uithoven
    Jul 6, 2016 at 9:55

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This is what worked for me:

  1. Download latest source from the GitHub repository
  2. Install the required libraries: 
    sudo apt install libxcb1-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libx11-dev intltool
  3. Go to extracted redshift folder, then run these commands: 
    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/redshift/root --with-systemduserunitdir=$HOME/.config/systemd/user  --enable-randr
make; sudo make install
~/redshift/root/bin/redshift -l your_latitude:your_longitude
     
  4. Add the last line to your startup application list
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  • downvoters, care to explain?
    – sojin
    Jul 4, 2016 at 7:41
  • Awesome, after installing those packages the configure indeed enabled randr and then I could start redshift. And I verified it worked by changing the time to nighttime. But why not start redshift-gtk? This enables the gui (indicator and menu in the top bar).
    – Peter Uithoven
    Jul 6, 2016 at 9:48
  • Wouldn't it be better to copy the binary / binaries to a $PATH folder after make?
    – Peter Uithoven
    Nov 14, 2016 at 13:06
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You can install redshift from repository ufficial of Ubuntu/Elementary OS. Just run it in your terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install redshift redshift-gtk

$ sudo apt-get install libxcb1-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libx11-dev

$ sudo apt-get update

$ redshift

I've run it and work!

You can use redshift -h for help, and you can run redshift -m list and use randr/vidmode.
For other help you can use documentation from terminal with man redshift.

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  • Thanks for the help! Looking at apt-cache policy redshift I installed it from the official Ubuntu repository: http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages. But even after installing redshift-gtk explicitly and installing those additional packages, libcb1-dev, libxcb-randr0-dev etc redshift -m list still only lists dummy as option. I understood from the developers that these options are enabled when building the package, depending on which packages are present. Doesn't this make installing those dependencies irrelevant when I don't compile the package myself?
    – Peter Uithoven
    Jul 6, 2016 at 9:29
  • I can confirm that on ElementaryOS Loki Refshift can be found the AppCenter. But to get it to run I also had to install GeoClue 2 by running sudo apt install geoclue-2.0.
    – Peter Uithoven
    Dec 4, 2016 at 23:10

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