Re:Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark...
by baroffoos on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:46PM
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>and sadly the brightness keys on the laptop are uninterceptable
This doesn't seem to be true for most laptops. The ones I have used show a OS graphic when you turn the brightness down similar to the volume. Have tested this using linux on a dell xps and a macbook.
Unfortunately both still do not adjust the brightness of external monitors.
Re:Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark...
by chrismorgan on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:59PM
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On my previous laptop I ran Arch Linux with i3, and handled the XF86Brightness keys myself. But at present I’m using Windows, and I haven’t found any means of intercepting the keys: Windows handles them in some way that prevents me from handling them myself.
Taking my laptop as an example: Windows has two APIs for adjusting screen brightness, one of which only works for the internal display and one of which only works for external displays; and sadly the brightness keys on the laptop are uninterceptable and I have not come up with any way of linking the brightnesses either. I went hunting and settled on some old freeware called ScreenBright which I can invoke from the command line, so that now I just run `b 0` for night time and `b 40` for most of the day (and up to 70% in certain seasons—but 100% is pretty much always too bright where I use my external displays). Since I arranged that workflow, I have also written a tiny Rust program that interacts with the APIs directly which could replace it.