brightnessctl
A program to read and control device brightness (by Hummer12007)
wluma
Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and ALS (by maximbaz)
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| brightnessctl | wluma | |
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| 10 | 3 | |
| 776 | 547 | |
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| 6.4 | 5.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 24 days ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | ISC License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
wluma
Posts with mentions or reviews of wluma.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.
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Something like gammy for F36 with Wayland?
Been using this https://github.com/Fushko/gammy/releases on F35. Now that Fedora defaults to Wayland on Nvidia cards i can't use it anymore (I could if i went back to X11 i suppose). I have tried https://github.com/maximbaz/wluma but it doesn't seem to work on fedora, even when compiling it myself. Anyone got a similar software that does work? I hate getting flashbanged when opening a website with a white background at 23:00.
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Extension to invert colors if average pixel color would otherwise be over 50% bright (Automatic "emergency" dark mode to protect eyes)
You could look into potentially porting https://github.com/maximbaz/wluma to use gnome protocols. That does a lot of heavy lifting to make analyzing overall color efficient and battery-friendly, and I don't *think* it would require a whole lot of modification to get it to work nicely with mutter
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Sway apps list moved to github
https://github.com/maximbaz/wluma too to get adaptive luminosity on a Wayland based laptop.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing brightnessctl and wluma you can also consider the following projects:
light - GNU/Linux application to control backlights
wlr-protocols - Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors)
brillo - Control the brightness of backlight and keyboard LED devices on Linux. (read only mirror)
sway.wiki
imv - Image viewer for X11/Wayland
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
Clight - A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
deluge - Deluge BitTorrent client - Git mirror, PRs only
wldash - Wayland launcher/dashboard
Clightd - A linux bus interface that lets you change screen brightness, compute captured webcam frames brightness and change screen temperature.
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.