qtile-x-dotfiles VS Clight

The @hook goes in your config.py take a look at my old X Qtile dotfiles for reference if you wish. Dotfiles

If it helps you can read through my Qtile dotfiles for X here

I used Qtile for ages and even pushed my dotfiles to help others. But recently and excuse my language I switched to Sway to go full on Wayland without even giving Qtile a chance. Now I find that I keep stalking the Qtile repo every other day and it seems that it's calling me back. I'm so tempted to switch back but this time ditch X and go full on Wayland. If I have any X apps which I don't think I do then I'd run them in cage. Anyone else here running Qtile under Wayland ?

Qtile - Screenshots and dotfiles

Feel free to copy my example from my dotfiles here but you'll have to change your device to amdgpu_bl1 as mine is 0 https://github.com/justinesmithies/qtile-dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/statusbar/brightnesscontrol

Qtile is the way to go tbh. Check out my dotfiles for help and a wee screenshot. https://github.com/justinesmithies/dotfiles

Here's my dotfiles for my arch Qtile setup. It might help you if needed ? https://github.com/justinesmithies/dotfiles

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.

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.

Clight can do that. See the config file.

Installed light, clight, clightd and acpilight

If you're using a laptop screen, there's Clight, which can turn your webcam into an ambient light sensor.

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.

Check out Clight. There's also a GUI for it.

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.