Auto Backlight

Automatically change brightness depending on screen contents. The program takes a screenshot of the primary screen and calculates its average RGB value and increases/decreases the brightness by a certain value.

Installation

Arch Linux

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/Supernovatux/auto_backlight/releases/latest/download/PKGBUILD
makepkg -si
auto-backlight -h

Other distros

Git clone the repo and do a cargo build.

    git clone https://github.com/Supernovatux/auto_backlight
    cd auto_backlight
    cargo build --release
    cargo install --path=./ --root=/home/$USERNAME/.local
    #Make sure ~/.local/bin is in your PATH
    auto-backlight -h

Roadmap

• Improve performance.
• Test on wayland
• Multimonitor support
• Make it cross platform.

Features

• System tray

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