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Miscellaneous scripts used by Nico Schottelius
Notable things usable for others:
cbacklight
Sets/controls backlight using /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness directly. Usable for systems that use modesetting instead of intel driver.
Also: supports multiple backlight outputs at the same time.
[14:12] line:~% cbacklight --help
usage: cbacklight [-h] [--inc INC | --dec DEC | --set SET] [--get]
cbacklight
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--inc INC Increment by percentage (points)
--dec DEC Decrement by percentage (points)
--set SET Set to percentage
--get Get percentage (default)
[14:12] line:~% cbacklight --inc 5
[14:12] line:~% cbacklight --get
intel_backlight: 72.17%
[14:13] line:~% cbacklight --dec 7 --get
intel_backlight: 65.19%
It is basically a smarter / lighter xbacklight replacement