nvidia-backlight

A simple script to help manage brightness of NVIDIA cards that have strange "brightness steps"

Dependencies

This is a bash script that wraps brightnessctl so the dependencies are:

Bash -> almost all linux distro should have it installed by default
brightnessctl -> to interact with your video card brightness
notify-send -> you shold have installed - to receive a feedback of the action performed

To get the usage message just call it with no arguments

backlight

To increase brightness of 10 point

backlight up 10

or using a percentage

backlight down 10%

An optional image argument can be provided like so:

backlight up 10 ~/.icons/my-brightness-icon.svg

If no image is provided it defaults to the first element containing the name "brightness.svg" enumerating /usr/share/icons/ folder

To install this script simply clone this repo and run make:

git clone https://github.com/mamaraddio/nvidia-backlight
cd nvidia-backlight
sudo make install

A clean recipe is provided with the Makefile. To uninstall you can run

sudo make clean