diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix
index 311c28db556a..e73f3392cea3 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix
@@ -64,7 +64,16 @@ let
 
       preConfigure = "./bootstrap";
 
-      postFixup = "wrapPythonPrograms";
+      dontWrapGApps = true;
+
+      preFixup = ''
+        makeWrapperArgs+=("''${gappsWrapperArgs[@]}")
+      '';
+
+      postFixup = ''
+        wrapPythonPrograms
+        wrapGApp $out/bin/${pname}
+      '';
 
       # the geoclue agent may inspect these paths and expect them to be
       # valid without having the correct $PATH set
@@ -112,24 +121,6 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
-  redshift-wlr = mkRedshift {
-    pname = "redshift-wlr";
-    # upstream rebases so this is the push date
-    version = "2019-08-24";
-
-    src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "minus7";
-      repo = "redshift";
-      rev = "7da875d34854a6a34612d5ce4bd8718c32bec804";
-      sha256 = "0rs9bxxrw4wscf4a8yl776a8g880m5gcm75q06yx2cn3lw2b7v22";
-    };
-
-    meta = redshift.meta // {
-      description = redshift.meta.description + "(with wlroots patches)";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/minus7/redshift";
-    };
-  };
-
   gammastep = mkRedshift rec {
     pname = "gammastep";
     version = "2.0.7";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 4ff990489380..746d35d4d766 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   ring-daemon = jami-daemon; # added 2021-10-26
   radare2-cutter = cutter; # added 2021-03-30
   redkite = throw "redkite was archived by upstream"; # added 2021-04-12
+  redshift-wlr = throw "redshift-wlr has been replaced by gammastep"; # added 2021-12-25
   retroArchCores = throw "retroArchCores has been removed. Please use overrides instead, e.g.: `retroarch.override { cores = with libretro; [ ... ]; }`"; # added 2021-11-19
   rkt = throw "rkt was archived by upstream"; # added 2020-05-16
   rpiboot-unstable = rpiboot; # added 2021-07-30
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 91233f4265d8..73e2b3fe8827 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -31346,7 +31346,7 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (python3Packages) python pygobject3 pyxdg wrapPython;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) CoreLocation ApplicationServices Foundation Cocoa;
     geoclue = geoclue2;
-  }) redshift redshift-wlr gammastep;
+  }) redshift gammastep;
 
   redshift-plasma-applet = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/redshift-plasma-applet { };