NAME radharc - Reduce eye strain and improve sleep. PRONUNCIATION ɹˈaɪɐrk (depending on dialect) SYNOPSIS radharc [OPTIONS]... The -l option is mandatory, unless single value -t is used. OPTIONS -l LATITUDE:LONGITUDE Tell radharc where you are. This is mandatory. The values are measured in degrees and in the GPS (you probably do not have too care about that, the differences between the systems should not be significant another), and must be in decimal. Reminder for Americans (particularly US Americans), you are an the western hemisphere, not the eastern, thus your longtiude is negative. If you experience weird colour temperatures, 100 % of the times it is because you forgot the minus sign. But no need to feel stupid, it is a really common mistake. No complicated stuff please, only latitudes within ±90° and longitudes within ±180°. No unit thought. -t DAY:NIGHT Select colour temperature to use during full daytime and full night. This should be a integer. Do not include the unit (the 'K'). The temperatures must be at least 1000 K. -t TEMPERATURE Select temperature to use. The program will exit when it is done setting the temperature. The natural colour temperature is 6500 K ('-t 6500'). The temperature must be at least 1000 K. -t +DELTA Increase the colour temperature by DELTA kelvin. -t -DELTA Decrease the colour temperature by DELTA kelvin. -T TEMPERATURE Temperature that shall be used when the program is disabled (via SIGUSR1). -p Print the current status. -n Set the temperature immediately, do not transition. -N Do not transition when exiting, disabling, or reenabling. -o Set the colour, and exit. -x Ignore the current calibrations on the monitors. -s SECONDS The start and exit transitions shall take SECONDS seconds. This may be a floating point number, with an explicit unit. -S KELVINS The transitions speed, in kelvin per second. This most be a positive integer. -i Apply negative image filter. Radharc will detect which monitors have this one when it starts. -h PATHNAME Use a hook script for events. -b Broadcast events with bus. -d SERVER=DISPLAY Use the display server whose identifier is DISPLAY and whose identifier is stored in the environment variable SERVER, for example -d DISPLAY=:0 for the X display :0. -d SYSTEM Use a subsystem which does not have identifiers. For example 'drm' for the Direct Rendering Manager. You can also select 'none', this is useful if you don't want any adjustments, but want events to be broadcasted. -e EDID Select monitor to use by its EDID. -m NUM Select monitor to use by its global index. -m SCREEN:NUM Select monitor to use by its index without a screen or graphic card. The later is for when not inside a graphics environment. All options also have a '+' variant, for example '+n'. These undo the affect of previous '-' variant. '+d', '+e', and '+m' all undo the affect of all previous '-d', '-e', and '-m' options (not respectively). Additionally, with the exception of '-d', '-e', '-m', subsequent options override the previous of the the option. SIGNALS SIGHUP Perform an online update to a newer version. SIGUSR1 Enable or disable radharc. SIGUSR2 Toggle negative image filter. Enable on all monitors if it is enable on some but not all. SIGRTMIN+N Toggle negative image on monitor N, if monitors have been selected manually, it will be in the order they where selected. ENVIRONMENT XDG_RUNTIME_DIR This environment variable names the directory in which the state file is stored. If unset or empty, /run is used. RADHARC_STATE The pathname to the state file, will be determined automatically if not set. If not set, you may only have one instance running per display server instance. RATIONALE Your location is determined use GeoClue because it clunky, unreliable, inaccurate and requires an Internet connection or GPS device, it is way to common that neither is available. And I do not want to handle all bug reports for this. Besides, you can use an external program. Your timezone is used to determine your location approximately when not specified, You can be a really poor approximation. It is too much work supporting summer time, especially when summer time is not necessarily +1 hour, additionally you can have scheme where it is first normal time, then summer time, then double summer time, then back to summer time, and the back normal time; complicated stuff, additionally, the Russian Federation is in permanent summer time. And have you heard about the People's Republic of China (not to be confused with the less known Republic of China,) they have one timezone, which is far from in the middle of the country. You can use an external program. To keep it simple, we are not even using your timezone to santity check your specified location. NOTES I suggest using a local script named radharc that sets all options for you. KNOWN ISSUES In X.org, the gamma ramps do not apply to hardware cursors, because the developers thinks it is the graphics drivers that shall fix this, and they are not accepting patches for this. You can use xorg-server-hwcursor-gamma, however, that patched version does not apply apply the gamma ramps until the cursor changes image. You can also use sortware cursors if this really bothers you. Wayland does not support this because it [Wayland] sucks. Haiku does not support this yet. SEE ALSO redshift(1), blueshift(1), redshift-adjust(1), nightshift(1), locateme(1)