lightum
MacBook automatic light sensor daemon (by poliva)
macbook-lighter
Macbook screen and keyboard backlight on the ambient light (by harttle)
| lightum | macbook-lighter | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 97 | 35 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 8 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
lightum
Posts with mentions or reviews of lightum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
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Is there anyway I can get a macbook pro 9,2 ambient light sensor working in ubuntu 20.10
If you still want to use lightum, you could also get it via a ppa.
macbook-lighter
Posts with mentions or reviews of macbook-lighter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-09.
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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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How do I install proper drivers for macbook-lighter to work?
The link to the github page: https://github.com/harttle/macbook-lighter
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lightum and macbook-lighter you can also consider the following projects:
Clight - A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.
mbp-fedora
mbp-2016-linux - State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016 & 2017
runit-services - Runit service scripts
polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
apple-bce-arch - Arch Linux package for the Apple BCE driver required for T2-equipped devices.
i3-kb-backlight - Keyboard backlight control and notifications for i3wm