l1light

A shell script that sets the brightness on devices using login1 D-Bus interface on Linux. It is made to set screen brightness in GUI sessions as a regular user without modifying other configuration.

Installation

Copy l1light.sh to a directory included in $PATH and rename it to l1light or run make install. Script and man page is installed to the home directory by default in the Makefile.

The programs written below are used but they are usually installed:

• awk
• dbus-send - setting brightness
• udevadm - used with detecting device when not specified

Standards

POSIX 2017 is adhered in source code.

Similar programs

• RPigott/blight
  • blight has more features and probably works better