Mercurial > backlight
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author | David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr> |
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date | Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:09:21 +0100 |
parents | 77ea2359f3e4 |
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--- a/README.md Wed Jan 29 06:03:40 2020 +0100 +++ b/README.md Wed Jan 29 13:09:21 2020 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ backlight ========= -This tool adjust your laptop brightness using ACPI. +This tool adjust your laptop brightness using direct ACPI manipulation. It has been designed for broken ACPI (e.g. HP) where fn-keys do not work, instead, you can map these keys to call this tool. @@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ Usage ----- -The backlight tool supports two commands, `up` and `down` which increment and -decrement backlight respectively. +The backlight tool supports several commands: + +- increase and decrease: respectively adjust the brightness to the next value, +- get: get the current brightness in 0-100 percentage value. +- set: set the current brightness in 0-100 percentage value. Example: - backlight up - backlight down + backlight increase + backlight set 90 + backlight get