Nvidia drivers screen brightness and back light

blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 03:09:02 UTC 2016


I turned off redshift but xbrightness isn't needed; xrandr --output DEVICE
--brightness [0.0-1.0] works just as well without needing to install
additional software.

I wonder will this affect the ability to put this device to sleep in a
power saving mode like suspend, hibernate, etc..

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:

> blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>      Please don't top post.
>
> > 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.
> >
>      Yes, I've noticed that, too.  If you want direct control, try
> xbrightness
> without redshift.  If that doesn't work, you may just have to fiddle with
> redshift inside a shell script.
>
>
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