KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment

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  • ddcci-plasmoid

    KDE Plasma widget to adjust the brightness of multiple external monitors

  • So you can get away with this:

        git clone https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid

  • BetterDisplay

    Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!

  • Yes, BetterDisplay got DDC support on HDMI M1 soon after its dev learned that I added it in Lunar: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/issues/1361

    I’m friends with Istvan (the BetterDisplay dev) from the time he was a Lunar user, and we usually share implementation details for non-Pro features.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • MonitorControl

    🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

  • Also use something like this on Mac: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

  • Lunar

    Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

  • I develop Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) for controlling monitors on Mac and stumbled upon this gem for Linux which I wanted to share with you.

    I regularly get asked to recommend something similar to Lunar for Linux and Windows and while there's TwinkleTray for Windows, I didn't have a good recommendation for Linux. Glad this finally exists!

    A lot of people also use MonitorControl for Mac and might be curious what's the difference between it and Lunar. I have a comparison table here for those people: https://lunar.fyi/lunar-vs-monitorcontrol

  • Monitorian

    A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease

  • > there's TwinkleTray for Windows

    There is also Monitorian for Windows:

    https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian

  • xfce4-ddc-plugin

    Xfce panel plugin for controlling monitor settings.

  • Neat! I'm working on something very similar for Xfce, but invoking ddcutil natively: https://github.com/apsun/xfce4-ddc-plugin (very much WIP, currently only supports hotkeys and a single monitor)

    I've found that shelling out to the ddcutil CLI directly tends to be "lossy" - as in, if invoked very quickly (i.e. via keyboard shortcuts), it will tend to race with itself and fail half the time. So far the best solution I've found is to run a daemon to queue and batch together multiple operations, which significantly improved reliability.

  • Clight

    A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.

  • There is also Clight (https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight) if you want automatic backlight adjusting given ambient brightness. It supports external monitors through ddcutil C library and has many more features to offer.

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