@devnull @Quenti My desktop screen doesn't support going to zero brightness. I know that some laptops allow that, my screen doesn't.
The solution on the software level is to only deliver pixels that have a max value of say (150, 150, 150) to the screen, instead of (255, 255, 255). Of course that reduced the color depth that can be represented.
Even if the screen can go to zero, sometimes the level above that is too bright already.
Jul 7, 2026, 12:06 PM@sophie Ok thanks for clarifying. white point refers to color temp, not brightness. So the name was a bit confusing.
Redshift can set a low brightness but I can't try on screens that won't allow 0 so I don't know how it behaves with such screens. So I guess testing it would be a good way to see if it achieves the exact results you want.
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Jul 7, 2026, 12:09 PMHowever, I don't know if redshift can have a neutral white point of 6500 K, while being active (low-brightness-only mode, without orange hue implied by lower color temp), never tried such settings as 6500 K is "too white" for me. I use 5700 K during days and much lower during evenings/nights, unless I'm post-processing photos (In which case, redshift is completely turned off because it's incompatible with monitor calibration)
> white point refers to color temp, not brightness
Thanks for explaining things wrong to me. There is absolutely nothing that prevents you from setting a white point to (150, 150, 150). White point is more than you can change in your image editing app.
Also, this post was suggesting the feature to GNOME, not about extensions.