DDC Brightness Control

This project aims to be a simple and easy to use DDC brightness control plugin for Gnome

Features

• Brightness control via panel
• Adjustable keybindings for brightness controls
  • Active screen detection
  • By default, keybinding is alt+shift+f1/f2 for down/up on the active display
• Display linking if you want to adjust all displays at once

Planned Features?

• Would be nice to get this added to the system status menu at some point isntead of its own dot
• Support for direct i2c or better ddc controllers (not ddcutil)
• You tell me

Installation

(Examples use arch, but all packages should be available on other distros as well)

Be sure to have ddcutil installed it is a hard requirement for now

Also, if installing from source install just which is the chosen command runner for this project

sudo pacman -Syu ddcutil just

Add your user to the i2c group so it can use i2c without root and reboot/login+out

sudo usermod -aG i2c $USER
reboot

Now install the extension from version control (until we get to the gnome extension store)