diff --git a/recommends b/recommends
index 67a40c40..119a191e 100755
--- a/recommends
+++ b/recommends
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+uname=`uname`
+
 command -v \youtube-dl >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "shell-things contains youtube-dl alias for automatically setting video title as name, so you might want to install youtube-dl."; }
 
-command -v \gtk-redshift >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "xsessionrc tries to start gtk-redshift automatically on boot, so you might want to install it (or redshift in some distributions)."; }
+if [ $uname = "linux" ]
+then
+	command -v \gtk-redshift >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "xsessionrc tries to start gtk-redshift automatically on boot, so you might want to install it (or redshift in some distributions)."; }
+fi
 
 if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/gnupg-curl/copyright ]
 then