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This is now built into GNOME. You can set it under Displays

But it can't decrease brightness: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784810

Oh, that's a bummer. One of the main reasons I use redshift on my laptop is that the backlight doesn't go dim enough at night.

Please add a note to that bug report, so they can see more people need this.

To be honest, I've pretty much given up on Gnome. They're removing features I depend on left and right, don't respond to issues, and from everything I've heard, their technology stack seems to be a disaster.

I'm happy just using KDE Plasma, XFCE and i3wm and not having to care about whatever Gnome is doing (except when changes to GTK affects the rest of the ecosystem, like their client side decorations which make Gnome apps look out of place).

Thanks for sharing. Feeling the same, but didn't switch yet.

> But it can't decrease brightness

Who said that? You can always decrease brightness on a Linux laptop since the first gnome, I myself have gnome3 installed on 2 laptops and the brightness buttons are working perfectly fine.

He's saying that the Gnome night-mode doesn't adjust brightness ... not that it can't be changed at all.

I could never adjust the brightness of my laptop under Linux. So many people defend Linux to the point of denying people's first hand experience with it.

Didn’t work on my old Toshiba Satellite either. It wasn’t a particularly unpopular piece of hardware or anything.. actually it couldn’t even read the battery % due to an ACPI issue.

The buttons do work. But, some monitors are still too bright at night even with that brightness set to minimum, and hardware monitor controls set to minimum too.

Redshift manages to decrease brightness even further.

There also is Plasma5 native widget to control it automatically.

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