On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 08:41:17PM +0200, Tobias Tschinkowitz wrote: > Anyway, this is just an proposal. Hopefully there is > another solution to solve this. I know that we could also do this by > linking against xcb-xrandr (like xbacklight does) but i think we should > not do this for now.
xbacklight never worked for me on any laptop, I'm not sure it uses the ACPI Video module. Example on a thinkpad X1C5 (works fine using /sys/class/backlight/* files): $ xbacklight -get No outputs have backlight property Regards, -- David
