#1 2019-07-28 18:54:52

Mate0001

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Brightness Issues

I'm having trouble with my brightness settings I'm not able to change the brightness and I have looked online for a bit now and haven't found anything helpful for my problem

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Last edited by damo (2019-08-01 15:27:44)

damo

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Re: Brightness Issues

My solution for a similar issue on my laptop uses a bash script, and a text file to hold the current setting. The script uses xrandr to set the brightness, and keybinds to increase/decrease the brightness.
NB: minimal error-checking in this script!

#!/bin/bash
##
## brightness

BRIGHTNESS="$HOME/.config/mon-brightness.rc"

if [[ -f $BRIGHTNESS ]];then
    VAL=$(<$BRIGHTNESS)
else
    VAL=1.0
    echo $VAL > $BRIGHTNESS
fi

if [[ $1 = plus ]];then
    VAL=$(awk -v "VAL=$VAL" 'BEGIN { print VAL + 0.1 }')
elif [[ $1 = minus ]];then
    VAL=$(awk -v "VAL=$VAL" 'BEGIN { print VAL - 0.1 }')
else
    notify-send -t 3000 "Use 'brightness plus/minus'"
    exit 1
fi

echo $VAL > $BRIGHTNESS

xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --brightness $VAL --output HDMI-0 --brightness $VAL

keybinds in rc.xml:

    <!-- SCREEN BRIGHTNESS -->
    <keybind key="C-F9">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>brightness plus</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-F8">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>brightness minus</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

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