I am on Mint XFCE and Redshift is just so inconsistent and I have tried its forks, also inconsistent. So instead I have been using sct in the terminal to adjust the temperature, and have set a command that resets it back to normal every time that I log on. However, I was wondering if there is a way to make it so that “sct 2750” runs every day at 10 pm or during a specific period of time.
Edit: I figured out the solution which was to create a crontab with the following line in it: 0 22 * * * env DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority /usr/bin/sct 2750
At the same time you get a lot more benefits doing so. You also don’t need to install additional software just to run a background task every X time units.
And if you need to learn something, just learn the current state if the art.
I don’t know any distro that ships without cron installed out of the box. Maybe some bare bones minimal distro but I assume that OP isn’t using that or he would not need to ask this question.