Re: night light mode

[wwp]

Hello,


On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 08:09:49 +0000 Ron Yorston <rmy(a)frippery.org&gt; wrote:

>  Alessio Ciregia wrote:
>  >I don't know, but I've noted that if geolocalization is disabled in privacy
>  >settings, automatic (sunset to sunrise) night light doesn't work. And it
>  >sounds like a bug, or at least I don't remember such behavior on F28  
>  
>  There have been interactions between night light and geolocation
>  since it was introduced.  Because sunrise/sunset times depend on
>  location it's sort of inevitable.
>  
>  To have night light use sunrise/sunset when geolocation is disabled you
>  can configure it by hand:
>  
>     gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-last-coordinates
> '(40.00000, 10.00000)'
>     gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-enabled true
>     gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-schedule-automatic
> true
>  
>  The coordinates are decimal latitude/longitude.  The third setting is
>  just for completeness, it's on by default. 
Inevitable but no need to be faulty. If geoloc is disabled, software
should propose to set the location manually (possibly from a GUI),
at least that's how it works quite everywhere else since mobile era and
gps-equipped devices.


Regards,

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wwp