backlight_control

Control the backlight brightness.

I had some problems with xbacklight in combination with the proprietary nvidia driver, so I wrote a replacement.

Build

make

Install

sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Usage

$ backlight_control
Usage: backlight_control [+|-]<value>

Examples:
        backlight_control +10
        backlight_control -10
        backlight_control 50

backlight_control +n increases brightness by n%

backlight_control -n decreases brightness by n%

backlight_control n sets the brightness to n%