But not every system allows that and not every backlight goes as bright as i need on a sunny day.
So here is a brightness slider that works for me on most of my systems - it allows me to push the brightness beyond unity - in other words it pushes the screen into an "overbrightness" condition.
(Some systems do not report a "brightness" parameter within xrandr and will require a different script).
I usually only use it for short periods when a particular webpage is too dark or has poor contrast or i'm in bright light and my old eyes cant make out details on screen.
The original script was written by MochiMoppel to allow brightness control where the user has multiple monitors and all i initially did was to alter the "range" setting so that the slider can be pushed beyond "1.00"
As far as i know there was no original thread so consider this "not officially supported". Of course i will help answer any questions if i can...
Click on the script and push the slider as high or as low as you want.
Returning the slider to 1.00 resets the brightness to the original setting.
The slider appears at the location of the mouse pointer when the script is run.
When the slider is displayed you can make it disappear by clicking on it once, then clicking into whitespace.
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Changelog:
v0.1 and 0.2 would not run on some systems incl Fatdog
v0.3 worked better but did not read current brightness correctly
v0.4 Working well but code & comments untidy
v0.5 Tidied script comments & consulted MM re code to accommodate lowercase screen names. (Thx!)
