Acpilight
Acpilight
https://gitlab.com/wavexx/acpilight/
Xbacklight command replacement for controlling monitor brightness
Acpilight is an xbacklight replacement for controlling monitor brightness, presumably for minimalistic window managers. Unlike xbacklight, it works not only on X, but also on Wayland and even the virtual terminal by directly manipulating devices via the kernel's ACPI interface instead of using older XRandR, which also allows it to work with newer hardware.
Acpilight is backwards-compatible with xbacklight, so old scripts can run the same. It also adds an ability to control specific monitors via xbacklight -list (list the available devices) and xbacklight -ctrl [device] (control a specific device). However, it may require superuser permissions by default to set brightness, but can be setup to work as a normal user.
Download
https://gitlab.com/wavexx/acpilight/-/archive/v1.2/acpilight-v1.2.tar.gz
Decommissioned
YesLast updated in 2019, but still usable
VCS Checkout
git clone https://gitlab.com/wavexx/acpilight.gitCategories
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Yuri D'Elia | Author |
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Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to use | Python |
| Required to build | Make |
| Required to build | udev |
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