brightnessctl
A program to read and control device brightness (by Hummer12007)
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. (by p-gen)
| brightnessctl | smenu | |
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| 10 | 37 | |
| 784 | 2,335 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.4 | 8.1 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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brightnessctl
Posts with mentions or reviews of brightnessctl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.
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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
smenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of smenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.
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Lineselect 0.1.6
You can also use smenu (https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) to make these and many other selections.
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smenu clean window effect
Here are the relevant bits of the source (in [smenu.c](https://github.com/p-gen/smenu/blob/master/smenu.c):
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So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
Here are the bindings for smenu-history, I found somewhere at the site:
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I created a full POSIX sh menu.
I suggest a name change, so your smenu, isn't confused with this smenu, which is a totally different entity, can present the menus in columns, lines and tabular fashion, has hotkey support, and so much more, I don't know if it is POSIX compliant, but it can also be used with sh, and just not bash.
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Recommendations for CLI / terminal utilities for dialog or confirmation prompts?
smenu for menu and dialogs
- smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool/filter for interactive or scripting use.
- smenu v1.2.0 is released.
- smenu v1.2.0 is available with improvements in the multiple selections feature.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing brightnessctl and smenu you can also consider the following projects:
light - GNU/Linux application to control backlights
RAGENativeUI
brillo - Control the brightness of backlight and keyboard LED devices on Linux. (read only mirror)
kks - Handy Kakoune companion.
wluma - Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and ALS
notes - notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc
imv - Image viewer for X11/Wayland
cleanit - Cleanit cleanup your ~/Downloads and ~/.Trash directory, and set the cleanup schedule on your MacOS.
Clight - A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.
hx - Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs.
Clightd - A linux bus interface that lets you change screen brightness, compute captured webcam frames brightness and change screen temperature.
sn - Simple Notes using fzf