Clight
A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness. (by FedeDP)
ddcci-plasmoid
KDE Plasma widget to adjust the brightness of multiple external monitors (by davidhi7)
| Clight | ddcci-plasmoid | |
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| 14 | 8 | |
| 691 | 357 | |
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| 5.3 | 7.8 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Clight
Posts with mentions or reviews of Clight.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
- Clight – A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor
- A daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor
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KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
There is also Clight (https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight) if you want automatic backlight adjusting given ambient brightness. It supports external monitors through ddcutil C library and has many more features to offer.
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Is there anyway I can get a macbook pro 9,2 ambient light sensor working in ubuntu 20.10
Here are two suggestions from the Arch Wiki, try Clight or macbook-lighter. Clight looks to be continuously maintained, so I'd try that one first.
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Adjust screen brightness based on content's luminosity
Clight can do that. See the config file.
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Setting brightness on AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics in Xorg
Installed light, clight, clightd and acpilight
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Packages for eye strain solutions
If you're using a laptop screen, there's Clight, which can turn your webcam into an ambient light sensor.
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ambient light - brightness control for Linux
Clight is a lightweight C user daemon utility program that turns your webcam into a light sensor which it depends on to automatically adjust your screen’s display based on ambient light. Just like Redshift, Clight can manipulate the temperature of your screen and it derived inspiration from Calise.
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Automatic screen brightness
Check out Clight. There's also a GUI for it.
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Clight Uses Your Webcam To Adjust Screen Backlight Based On Ambient Brightness.
The only downside to Clight? You need to build not only Clight and Clightd from source, but also 2 dependencies (libmodule and ddcutil), as well as the Clight-GUI if you want to use it. That is, unless you use Arch Linux / Manjaro (there are AUR packages available), NixOS, Exherbo or Void Linux, for which there are packages available.
ddcci-plasmoid
Posts with mentions or reviews of ddcci-plasmoid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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Loving the update so far...
Yeah, on KDE they're called Plasmoids and you still need them for tons of shit, like ddcutil brightness control.
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KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
So you can get away with this:
git clone https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid -
I built a widget to adjust the brightness of external monitors
Looks like I'm about a half-day late to the party, but +1 for this enhancement: https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid/issues/2
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Clight and ddcci-plasmoid you can also consider the following projects:
ddcutil - Control monitor settings using DDC/CI and USB
BetterDisplay - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!
light - GNU/Linux application to control backlights
Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
clight-gui - Qt GUI for clight
valent - Connect, control and sync devices
acpilight
Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease
brightnessctl - A program to read and control device brightness
ddcci-driver-linux
Clightd - A linux bus interface that lets you change screen brightness, compute captured webcam frames brightness and change screen temperature.