# Night light going crazy

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064>\
**Category:** Budgie Applets\
**Created:** [October 2, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064 "2018-10-02T18:52:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![piratemurray](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/piratemurray/32/541_2.png) [@piratemurray](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/piratemurray)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064/1 "2018-10-02T18:52:36Z")

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Hi there, hope this is the right place feel free to move if not.

My night light is going absolutely crazy on my laptop and it is starting to get very annoying. The colour temp will go from cold blue (day time) to warm red (the night light setting) randomly and it is very jarring.

My settings are sunrise to sunset automatic. What could be happening? Or how can I capture more information to debug this?

Edit: Ubuntu Budgie 18.04

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064/2 "2018-10-03T07:14:22Z")

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There is a known issue upstream when the night light turns off when gnome screensaver kicks in … or sometimes when resuming from suspend.

Is your issue really random or is it because those known issues?

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**Author:** ![piratemurray](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/piratemurray/32/541_2.png) [@piratemurray](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/piratemurray)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064/3 "2018-10-03T07:42:02Z")

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Yes, you’re right. I noticed it when resuming from suspend.

Do you have the upstream bug that could track?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064/4 "2018-10-03T08:01:56Z")

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> <https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/1027>

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> <https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/1284>

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064/5 "2018-11-09T15:14:50Z")

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Some [people](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues/6) are reporting this following workaround should work:

```
killall gsd-color

```

This kills the monitor colour profile capability from GNOME - most people don’t use that I’m guessing.

If that works for you suggest wrap the above into an autostart script - something like

```
sh -c 'sleep 10; killall gsd-color'
```

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**Author:** ![Laci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c67d28/32.png) [@Laci](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Laci)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/night-light-going-crazy/1064/6 "2019-01-21T20:04:58Z")

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Same issue here.  
Ubuntu Budgie 18.04