Dimmer 1.3.0

Dimmer 1.3.0 adds Blur by angle, a blur that follows the lid with its own tint, and brings more controls into the panel and Settings.

• Blur by angle frosts the screen more as the lid closes, between two angles you set. Snap to blur, Blur by angle and the privacy shortcut each have their own Frost to Smoke tint, and typing or touching the trackpad now fades the privacy veil away at the Clear speed you set.
• Pause for 15 minutes or 1 hour and Dimmer resumes by itself. Resume keyboard dimming hands back only the keyboard, leaving screen and privacy control running.
• Cmd+Z undoes range and privacy adjustments in Settings, and each box has its own restore link that resets only that box.
• Go dark can have its own shortcut, unassigned until you record one, and the panel now offers every preset Keep awake duration.
• The panel explains when screen dimming is waiting, retrying or unavailable. Settings gives each feature its own box and updates more smoothly as the lid moves, and the privacy shortcut can now be switched off in its box.
• Quitting while macOS has dimmed the keyboard for inactivity now restores your brightness.
• Dimmer now checks for updates, if you agree. On its second launch it asks whether to check automatically; then once a day it fetches a small signed file, https://kalkmancode.co.uk/dimmer/appcast.xml, and updates download from GitHub. That check is its only network connection, and the request carries your IP address, preferred language and a User-Agent naming Dimmer's and Sparkle's versions, nothing more. Check for updates… checks once, and Settings → Updates turns automatic checks off.

One universal app for macOS 14 or later, signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple. Tested on a 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max (MacBookPro18,2) on macOS 27.2; Intel is untested.

Dimmer 1.2.1 and earlier cannot update themselves, so install 1.3.0 by hand once: download Dimmer-1.3.0.dmg below, open it and drag Dimmer to Applications, replacing the old copy. Your settings carry over. From 1.3 on, Dimmer offers updates itself.

Check it against SHA256SUMS with shasum -a 256 Dimmer-1.3.0.dmg.

The privacy shortcut uses KeyboardShortcuts by Sindre Sorhus (MIT). Updates use Sparkle 2.10.0 (MIT, with BSD and zlib notices).

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