Nvidia drivers screen brightness and back light

[Scott Bennett]

blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:

   [much stuff deleted  --SB]
>
> I use redshift and passing redshift -t x:x -b[0.0-1.0] allows some
> brightness controls but then xrandr has to warm up and go from a cool color
> screen to a warmer color then it adjusts the brightness.
>
>
> There's also xrandr --ouput ACTIVE_DEVICE -brightness [0.0-1.0] this seems
> to work but it won't work while redshift is working. They seem to fight for
> control of the display then redshift takes control and the screen goes back
> to somewhat full brightness.
>
>
> Is there a more efficient way to control the screen brightness?

     Have you tried x11/xbrightness yet?  It doesn't provide a way to retrieve
the current setting, but it does let you set the brightness on a scale of 0 -
65535.


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