How do you change your screen's color temperature in Ubuntu?

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Published on 2010-08-06T00:40:14Z Indexed on 2012/03/27 5:39 UTC
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I edit my photos on my laptop (yes, I know they have crap displays) and I recently had to replace the screen because the old one just randomly died. The old one had decent color reproduction by default, but this new one is VERY blue. After playing with the Gamma I've gotten it to be a bit better, but it's still pretty blue.

So, my question is, how do I go about changing my laptop's display's color temperature? And I don't mean through something like the Red, Green, Blue sliders in the NVIDIA config menu. I'm talking about like adjusting in degrees, like editing a photo's white balance.

EDIT: So now I've found Redshift and it's doing me pretty good. I thought it might be helpful if I out here the command I'm using.

redshift -t 5000:5000 -g .5

By adding this to my start up commands I should be good.

I'm still open to other suggestions, because I'd like something that actually edited my xorg.conf or something like that.

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