Brightness controls not working on Gigabyte display
We wrote some crummy code that adjusts it with xrandr – depending on whether the file is named brighter or darker – and then I bound it to some soft keys. The xrandr setting does not survive suspend though.
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#! /usr/bin/python import os,sys,time delta=0.0 if sys.argv[0].find('brighter')>0: delta=0.05 elif sys.argv[0].find('darker')>0: delta=-0.05 default=0.4 minimum=0.05 maximum=1.5 brightfile=os.environ['HOME']+'/.bright' try: brightness=float(open(brightfile,'r').read().strip()) except: brightness=0.4 brightness=max(min(brightness+delta,maximum),minimum) cmd='xrandr --output eDP-1 --rate 60 --mode 1920x1080 --brightness %0.2f' % brightness os.system(cmd) if time.time()-os.stat(brightfile).st_mtime > 1.2: notify='''notify-send -u low -a xrandr --icon=video-display 'OLED brightness' '%s' ''' % cmd os.system(notify) open(brightfile,'w').write('%0.2f\n' % brightness) |
