Doesn't poll for current brightness upon invocation.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

If I change my display brightness using https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid

and then switch to https://github.com/JonMagon/plasma-screendimmer

the wrong brightness is displayed.

[davidhi7]

I just randomly stumbled across this. My widget modifies the monitor brightness using DDC/CI, so basically on the hardware side, whereas this widget simply dims the picture on the software side. So since the widgets do different things, one won't affect the other.

[JonMagon]

Yes, the widgets are quite different. I don't see the point of using both together. I made this one mostly for myself, as my monitor doesn't support DDC/CI

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Actually, @davidhi7, yours only dims the software brightness for my monitor, an AOC Q3279WG5B. When I perform systemctl poweroff, the brightness returns to the value it was before https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid set it during the shutdown sequence. https://github.com/JonMagon/plasma-screendimmer, to my knowledge.

[davidhi7]

This is really strange, I've never heard anything like this before. What monitor are we talking about? Also, feel free to open a bug report in my repository to address this.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

I don't see the point of using both together.

@JonMagon, I use yours on my laptop because https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid doesn't work by default (I expect due to davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid#21 (comment)) whereas https://github.com/JonMagon/plasma-screendimmer does. Additionally, on my desktop, I can slide your widget's slider and the changes immediately update. The other, this is not true for.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@davidhi7, #2 (comment)

What monitor are we talking about?

@RokeJulianLockhart, #2 (comment)

an AOC Q3279WG5B

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Also, feel free to open a bug report in my repository to address this.

Thanks. Done so - davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid#36 (comment).