LI - backLIght changer

Light command is a small c program that adjusts the brightness of monitors. At the moment, only built-in monitors work i.e. most laptop monitors. Why make such a tiny program? There was a vacuum between gui application and shell scripts. The author did not particularly enjoy xbacklight (specially it’s dependence on a xconfig file for the monitor in some cases, and the syntax is just stupid… -set?).

LI seeks to correct this somewhat… but it’s not developed for the masses – just for me, so don’t expect anything.

Features

• Adjust brightness of built-in monitors (laptop monitors).
• Works on % of maxbrightness, not the arbitrary /sys/class/backlight… value fun.
• Micro codebase.

Manual

Downloading

git HTTPS

To get the latest version with git over HTTPS:

git clone https://github.com/cafkafk/li.git

git SSH

To get the latest version with git over SSH:

git clone git@github.com:cafkafk/li.git

Building

To build simply run:

$ make

Installing

To install simply run:

$ make install

Uninstalling

To uninstall simply run:

$ make uninstall

Usage

To get help for lc

$ lc --help

To set the target brightness (as an integer).

# lc [int]

Notice: the brightness is a percentage, so 100 -> 100% brightness, 50 -> 50% brightness etc…

Further it must be in the interval (0;100].

ROADMAP

• [-] built-in monitor support
• [ ] I2C support
• [ ] (unsure) multi-monitor