monitor-brightness

Inspire from code by udifuchs.

For monitor brightness (e.g. OLED) that Ubuntu system can't control.

Notice

Ubuntu official seems like it already supports OLED brightness natively, is time to deprecate this repository, but it is still welcome to commit issues or discuss some techniques in here 😁

One script to build & install

this script include Build & Auto Start Install

$ bash install.sh

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Build

The build requires xrandr package:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils

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Installation

Auto Start Install

If you want to install auto-start method when logging-in to the Gnome, run:

$ sudo make

It will auto select one monitor that is connected to install.

If you want to choise monitor to auto-start , open Makefile type your monitor-name on Monitor variable.

It will start it when the next logging-in. You can control by your brightness key or other method that can control backlight on the display.

Uninstall

$ make uninstall

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Run Tool

If you only want to run the tool, run:

$ make monitor-brightness
$ ./monitor-brightness [monitor_name]

NOTE

You need to find your monitor_name, use:

$ xrandr | grep " connected " | awk '{ print$1 }'

Remove Tool

$ make clean