Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?

Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? by redisman on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:26AM (#23496320)

It's insane how monitor software hasn't developed an inch from the 90s. How hard can it be to have an open API for the basic controls at least so the OS can adjust them? Everything about my monitor is great - 144hz refresh rate, great viewing angle and colors - except if I want to change any of the physical properties (brightness, contrast) I'm clicking around on a variety of buttons that I can't see like I'm trying to set the clock on my VCR.

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Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? by fibonachos on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:45AM (#23496400)

This actually exists, and it’s called DDC/CI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel

I only recently learned about it myself while setting up a new monitor and asking myself wtf is this DDC/CI setting in the menu.

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Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? by joelby37 on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:14AM (#23496843)

Thanks for the hot tip! I've been struggling with my monitor's menu buttons, but after reading your comment I found the macOS tool MonitorControl, which works perfectly.

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Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? by 6AA4FD on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:20AM (#23496565)

I can control laptop brightness with `/sys/class/backlight/foo`, and my asus external monitor advertises capabilities over hdmi with `modprobe i2c-dev` and then `ddcutil capabilities`. Apparently this is governed by something called MCCS. You can find more info on the arch wiki.

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Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? by mixmastamyk on Friday June 12, 2020 @12:19PM (#23500728)

I have a script with ddccontrol to change brightness of my external monitor:

    ddccontrol -r 0x10 -w ${NUM}0  dev:/dev/i2c-${DEV_NUM}

The internal:

    BACKLIGHT_PATH="/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"
    sh -c "echo ${NUM} > $BACKLIGHT_PATH"

The numbers are a slightly different scale, so I adjust them in the script.

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