How to enable geoclue2?

[Member radekX]

I have installed redshift-gtk and redshift also geoclue-2.0. But how to start geoclue2 servcie?

[Member Xecure]

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Control Centre > Session > User Desktop-session > Startup
Add these in the startup file (at the end, for example).

# Start geoclue
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent &

Save the file and restart the session.

Done.

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[Member sybok]

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Hi,

I did install ‘redshift-gtk’ way back and ‘geoclue*’ was not needed at all.
I managed to circumvent the issue redshift complaining about location by writing a manual configuration of location into the config. file ‘~/.config/redshift.conf’, e.g.

[redshift]
temp-day=5250
temp-night=2750
gamma=0.8
adjustment-method=vidmode
location-provider=manual
[manual]
lat=29.6
lon=14.4

If you do not travel too far with your PC/desktop/notebook/USB (no significant change of time-zones), this could do the job instead of ‘geoclue*’
I know some people that try to avoid ‘geoclue*’ considering it connecting to internet to determine your location as undesirable as far as privacy is concerned.

EDIT: I did find the manual-location on the internet.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by sybok.

[Member ModdIt]

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Thanks sybok, good fix,
as one who has avoided geoclue, disabled geolocation in browsers and blocked the geolocation service
from Mozilla and goog will use for sure. I locate according to other sites in Bremen or sometimes
Stuttgart depending on provider exit point, best I can do I think..

As I pass on a pre configured setup I am trying to avoid any issues with personal data transfer,
one, very pervasive is location.

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