Bryte

A simple CLI to change your screen's brightness.
Xbacklight has always been a little buggy and instead of having a program that does a lot of different things, Bryte aims to do few things but be stable.

Bryte can be used to:

• View current brightness
• Increment/Decrement brightness¹
• Set brightness to desired level

Written in C.

Try out

To simply try out bryte:

$git clone https://github.com/Brutuski/bryte.git
$cd bryte/src
$gcc bryte.c -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Os -o bryte
$./bryte -c

Install

Installed in /usr/bin/
To Install:

make
sudo make install

Usage

• To get to the help section

  $bryte -h
  

• To display current brightness level

  $bryte -c
  

• To increment¹ brightness

  $bryte -i
  

• To decrement¹ brightness

  $bryte -d
  

• To manually set brightness levels ( corresponds to the desired brightness levels)

  $bryte -s <num>
  

• Version and other information

  $bryte -v
  

Keybinding with i3

Change the key combinations as desired.

• To increment

  bindsym $mod+Control+j exec bryte -i
  

• To decrement

  bindsym $mod+Control+k exec bryte -d
  

Intregration with Polybar

After installation, simply put this in your Polybar config

[module/bryte]
type = custom/script
exec = bryte -c

tail = true
interval = 1

label = "%output%"

and include bryte in your bar at the desired positioning.

Compatibility

Compatible with all Linux systems² with an intel_backlight.
Check compatibility by running

$bryte -p

or simply looking up the output of

$ls /sys/class/backlight/

Artwork

Logo created by Vasundhara Sharma
Github, Behance

Disclaimer

1: Increment/Decrement in 5% steps each.
2: Linux systems with /sys/class/backlight/ are supported.
3: Support for intel_backlight only in v1.0.