Nvidia drivers screen brightness and back light

[blubee blubeeme]

I just installed xbrightness and tried to use that, it seems to do the same
thing that xrandr --output ACTIVE_DEVICE -brightness [0.0 - 1.0] but again
redshift wrestles control away from this xbrightness program.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:

> 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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