brightnessctl
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| 6.4 | 10.0 | |
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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brightnessctl
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How can I give read-write access to the video group?
Make sure you've the correct /usr/lib/udev/rules.d rule.
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Backlight control bypassing Gnome on Guix?
brightnessctl that works well! https://github.com/Hummer12007/brightnessctl
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Trying to run light without sudo permission
Tip: brightnessctl is a program that does the same thing and doesn't need udev rules.
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Can't adjust brightness in Manjaro gnome
try brightnessctl (present in official repos)
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[Lenovo Legion Slim 7] created a GUI for a rudimentary brightness controller since full brightness support isn't available. Only uses xrandr so not quite optimal but I'd been changing brightness through the terminal and figured this would be convenient for myself and others maybe
I think I used this one, seemed to work for me
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Cron cannot change brightness
The problem was with udev rules. It was not there for some reason
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Brightness shortcut in Artix
brightnessctl should be used without root permisions. Check how you can do it th the README: https://github.com/Hummer12007/brightnessctl. Depending on how you installed the package the udev rules could be already installed but you also need your user in the video group.
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List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.
brightnessctl - This program allows you to read and control device brightness.
- keyboard light problems
ncdu
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Midnight Commander is MIA; any command line based twin pane file manager recommendations?
ncdu - Ncurses disk usage, but I like gdu better
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List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.
ncdu
What are some alternatives?
light - GNU/Linux application to control backlights
dua-cli - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
brillo - Control the brightness of backlight and keyboard LED devices on Linux. (read only mirror)
smenu - smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.
wluma - Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and ALS
tickrs - Realtime ticker data in your terminal 📈
imv - Image viewer for X11/Wayland
bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
Clight - A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
Clightd - A linux bus interface that lets you change screen brightness, compute captured webcam frames brightness and change screen temperature.
gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop