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[Feature request] Support DDC/CI backlight setting

Open isf63 opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

I believe currently lxqt-config-brightness only supports setting monitors' backlights via ACPI (/sys/class/backlight/). Many external monitors do not use ACPI but instead DDC/CI (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Backlight#External_monitors). It'd be wonderful if software backlight setting for DDC/CI monitors could be incorporated into LXQt.

Current Behavior

'Backlight' slider is greyed out in lxqt-config-brightness due to the external monitor not having ACPI backlight support.

Possible Solution

Look at ddcutil and see how it sets backlights. (Note: ddcutil requires the i2c-dev kernel module)

Context

Software setting of backlight is very convenient, especially so when not on laptops with dedicated keyboard keys for setting screen brightness.

System Information
  • Distribution & Version: Arch Linux
  • Kernel: Linux 6.3.2
  • Package version: 1.2.0.14.g36868e68

isf63 avatar May 16 '23 14:05 isf63