Introduction
If you are looking for an easy way to adjust display brightness from the command-line in Linux, then I have good news for you.
Meet 🔆 set-brightness
A very simple command-line utility which allows you to adjust display brightness from the command-line.
Installation
NOTE
- Currently, it works well for Intel display laptops. However, if you encounter
hardware not supportedthen please raise an issue and share the output of the following command.
$ ls -lh /sys/class/backlight
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set-brightness
🔆 Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux (open-source)
🔆 set-brightness - Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux
USAGE
set-brightness - Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux (v1.0)
USAGE: set-brightness [LEVEL]
OPTIONS:
LEVEL Brightness level, specify a value between 0 - 100
-h or --help Print help (this message) and exit
--version Print version information and exit
EXAMPLES:
set-brightness 50 - Set brightness level to 50%
INSTALLATION
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Top comments (1)
I had a couple of issue with my machine with no bash or sudo (KISS linux). so I removed bashisms (Bash only expressions) and made fully posix compliant. I also had it check for sudo before running so users could run the command as root instead.
github.com/tuladhar/set-brightness...