cbacklight for Debian

-- Gorla PRaveen gorlapraveen@gmail.com Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:24:02 +0700

brightness_bashshell_script

A simple bash script for linux to increase brightness, decrease brightness, set brightnes, current brightnes,nightmode and daymode by running the commands in your terminal. For example, as a root user run : backblacklight nightmode in your terminal for nightmode.

Debian(.deb) Package Installation[& Uninstallation] Procedure

Installation

• In Linux Terminal Command Line, enter apt search cbacklight* . In general for any other packages likepackage_name installation, you can useapt search package_name.
• If packages is found in the list then, in terminal, apt install cbacklight*. But, if package is not available then go to next step.

(or)

• Download debian package(.deb) from Debain Package Repository(if package is available) or else clone the package from this repository using git clone https://gitlab.com/gorlapraveen/blacklight-deb-packages.git

• Then enter the following commands in command line termianl.

   cd blacklight-deb-packages
   dpkg -i *.deb 
  

  ##In general for Debian(.deb) based package installation dpkg -i package_name.deb or dpkg -i *.deb(for installing all deb packages in the directory).

Un-Install

Use apt purge cbacklight* for complete remove of package.

Usage: After Installation:

run : backlight [commands] [options]

 [command]

        current    : Shows present brightness level within the max brightness level
        increase   : increases brightness
        decrease   : decreases brightness 
        set        : sets brightness to an Integer
        nightmmode : Nightmode
        daymode    : Daymode

 [options]         : input integers form 1 to maximum brightness

Example usage : To increase brightness by one level. Run the following in Command Line Interface.

         backlight increase

Example usage : To set brightness level to 300 in range of 1 to maximum brightness(for Intel processors the max brigntness may be 937 in integer number). Run the following in Command Line Interface.

         backlight set 300 

Contributor: @gorlapraveen