On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:56:01 +0000, Langley wrote:
> What a crappy workaround. So I had to install redshift-gtk, a package I
> don’t need, but is the only one I can add as an autostart application.
It’s probably not the only solution, but I find that I like having the
icon in the bar at the bottom of the screen to enable/disable redshift.
<shrug>.
There’s probably a way to do this (create a .desktop file with just the
redshift executable and its command-line parameters, most likely).
> I
> must then, despite my plea, edit an arcane and obscure configuration
> file to change the exec to redshift -l 55.7:12.5 (Just running
> redshift-gtk doesn’t work since the geolocator feature is broken).
What I did when I set it up on my system was install gtk-redshift and
then used the command-line parameters that I would have used on redshift.
> I
> guess I can remove the redshift-gtk package now, but what the hell.
>
> The next time I want to do a completely elementary task with my
> computer, why don’t the Gnome developers just come over and break my
> index fingers instead. Would probably save us both some time and effort.
The use of .desktop files isn’t that unusual, IME - it’s just a question
of learning a particular desktop’s way of doing things.
Freedesktop.org provides a standardized way of doing this - which is the
way GNOME uses:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
That spec hopefully will help you understand the system. 
> But thanks for your help, guys!
You bet - glad to be able to help you get to where you wanted to be.
Jim
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