xbrightness : fine-tune the light ! |
StoryOnce, there was a laptop which had a rough life : lit up at dawn (!), it would work all day, and almost all night, with a lot of ssh and heat producing tasks. Not for helping it, that was in a warm country ... Later on, that same laptop would be carried all day-long in Paris' metropolitan trains for months. As a result the screen suddenly turned, err, "half reversed-video". Later again, I decided to give that laptop a second chance. I noticed that if I could use only the first half of the available brightness on the screen, I should manage to get a decent output from this half broken hardware. Googling for people using XF86VidModeSetGammaRamp function, I came to xbrightness, brought to us by Asher Blum. I've tuned it a little bit in order to set both brightness and something like a gamma, and here it is Short manual
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updated October 1st 2005 - Jean-Daniel Pauget |