gicmo/brightnessctl

Project ID: 29146

Description

Read and control device brightness

Installation Instructions

Install in the usual way via:

dnf copr enable gicmo/brightnessctl
dnf install brightnessctl

Verify it works by exectuging brightnessctl -V

See the man brightnessctl(1) page or the help text of the binary:

Usage: brightnessctl [options] [operation] [value]

Options:
  -l, --list			list devices with available brightness controls.
  -q, --quiet			suppress output.
  -p, --pretend			do not perform write operations.
  -m, --machine-readable	produce machine-readable output.
  -n, --min-value		set minimum brightness, defaults to 1.
  -e, --exponent[=K]		changes percentage curve to exponential.
  -s, --save			save previous state in a temporary file.
  -r, --restore			restore previous saved state.
  -h, --help			print this help.
  -d, --device=DEVICE		specify device name (can be a wildcard).
  -c, --class=CLASS		specify device class.
  -V, --version			print version and exit.

Operations:
  i, info			get device info.
  g, get			get current brightness of the device.
  m, max			get maximum brightness of the device.
  s, set VALUE			set brightness of the device.

Valid values:
  specific value		Example: 500
  percentage value		Example: 50%
  specific delta		Example: 50- or +10
  percentage delta		Example: 50%- or +10%

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 37	aarch64 (28), ppc64le (28), x86_64 (28)*	Fedora 37 (0 downloads)
Fedora 38	aarch64 (12), ppc64le (11), x86_64 (12)*	Fedora 38 (26 downloads)
Fedora 39	aarch64 (8), ppc64le (8), x86_64 (8)*	Fedora 39 (20 downloads)
Fedora 40	aarch64 (0), ppc64le (0), x86_64 (0)*	Fedora 40 (4 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (17), ppc64le (16), x86_64 (17)*	Fedora rawhide (83 downloads)