Redshift not working

My set up:
OS: Zorin OS 17.1 x86_64
Host: 4177A54 ThinkPad T420
Kernel: 6.5.0-44-generic
Uptime: 16 hours, 8 mins
Packages: 2350 (dpkg), 32 (flatpak), 12 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 1366x768
DE: Xfce
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: ZorinPurple-Dark
Theme: ZorinPurple-Dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: ZorinPurple-Dark [GTK2], ZorinBlue-Dark [GTK3]
Terminal: xfce4-terminal
Terminal Font: JetBrains Mono 10
CPU: Intel i5-2520M (4) @ 3.200GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 4200M
GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
Memory: 3496MiB / 7709MiB

Trying to tweak Redshift. Redshift was showing the colour temperature as 'OK' not very helpful and location as '0.0.0.' No discernible 'redness' on the display. No 'redshift.conf' in home directory. Tried to tweak and got the following errors. Any suggestions welcome.

Trying location provider geoclue2'... Using provider geoclue2'.
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
Could not connect to wayland display, exiting.
Failed to start adjustment method wayland.
Trying next method...
Using method `randr'.
Waiting for initial location to become available...
Unable to obtain GeoClue client path: Timeout was reached.
Unable to get location from provider.
redshift

You don't need RedShift as Zorin has it's own equivalent:

Page 172 of the Unofficial Manual for Zorin 17 MkIIII - Comic Relief version pdf

Thank you for your reply. I have the Xfce desktop and this does not appear to have this night light feature.

Also I understand that from 12 Jun this year Mozilla shut down their geo location services.

If I'm mistaken please advise.

Thanks.

Try to set a schedule manually, in which case the geolocation service becomes irrelevantl; does this work at all?

Sorry, my bad. I should have noticed you were running Zorin Lite. Looks like the only alternative to redshift is sct:

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/sct.1.html

[Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/15ggeis/qredshift_alternative_for_xfce/]

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Thanks. SCT works fine. I'll use that on a per session basis.

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Thanks for the reply. I'll try that

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