Subject: bug#37843: GNOME night light doesn't change colors with GNOME 3.30

From: Jack Hill <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 22:54:53 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Guix,

After the recent core-updates merge which included GNOME 3.30, it appears 
the the night light feature, which makes the screen colors warmer, doesn't 
seem to work. It appears to activate fine via the setting and via the 
timer, but the screen colors don't change. It also appears that colord 
isn't running, which I suspect is related.

$ guix describe
Generation 74	Oct 18 2019 21:59:02	(current)
   guix 545ff7b
     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
     branch: master
     commit: 545ff7b7841ddae9c73345ab5c6af42aadbda6e3

;; config.scm
;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "desktop" setup with GNOME and Xfce where the
;; root partition is encrypted with LUKS.

(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss) (gnu services xorg)
 	     (gnu packages linux))
(use-service-modules desktop)
(use-package-modules certs gnome scanner security-token)

(operating-system
  (host-name "alperton")
  (timezone "America/New_York")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")

  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
 	      (bootloader grub-bootloader)
 	      (target "/dev/sda")))

  ;; Specify a mapped device for the encrypted root partition.
  ;; The UUID is that returned by 'cryptsetup luksUUID'.
  (mapped-devices
   (list (mapped-device
 	 (source (uuid "f7776767-70c9-44e3-9973-c1334d301348"))
 	 (target "alperton_root")
 	 (type luks-device-mapping))))

  (file-systems (cons
 		(file-system
 		 (device (file-system-label "alperton_root"))
 		 (mount-point "/")
 		 (type "ext4")
 		 (dependencies mapped-devices))
 		%base-file-systems))

  (swap-devices (list "/root/swap"))

  (users (cons (user-account
 	       (name "jackhill")
 	       (comment "Jack Hill")
 	       (group "users")
 	       (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
 				       "audio" "lp" "video"))
 	       (home-directory "/home/jackhill"))
 	      %base-user-accounts))

  ;; This is where we specify system-wide packages.
  (packages (cons* nss-certs         ;for HTTPS access
 		  fuse-exfat
 		  gvfs              ;for user mounts
 		  %base-packages))

  ;; Add GNOME and/or Xfce---we can choose at the log-in
  ;; screen with F1.  Use the "desktop" services, which
  ;; include the X11 log-in service, networking with
  ;; NetworkManager, and more.
  (services (cons* (service gnome-desktop-service-type)
 		  (bluetooth-service)
 		  (simple-service 'custom-udev-rules udev-service-type (list sane-backends libu2f-host))
 		  %desktop-services))

Best,
Jack