KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
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Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#2Oh I'm definitely trying this. I currently have kb shortcuts defined for brightness up/down that invoke ddcutil.
This really ought to be built into every OS. From what I've read, the catch is that DDC implementations are often very buggy and can cause problems, so it would be risky to do this out of the box.
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#3Also use something like this on Mac: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#4Oh I'm definitely trying this. I currently have kb shortcuts defined for brightness up/down that invoke ddcutil. This really ought to be built into every OS. From what I've read, the catch is that DDC implementations are often very buggy and can cause problems, so it would be risky to do this out of the box.
There is a plan to add DDC to the Linux kernel, so that any desktop can manage external monitors using the same APIs they use to manage internal laptop panels. Hopefully that would mitigate the problems you mention.
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#5Oh I'm definitely trying this. I currently have kb shortcuts defined for brightness up/down that invoke ddcutil. This really ought to be built into every OS. From what I've read, the catch is that DDC implementations are often very buggy and can cause problems, so it would be risky to do this out of the box.
I bet if windows had supported DDC/CI for the past decade monitors would work with it reliably. (Well, as reliably as any hardware peripheral)
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#6I 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
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#7Oh I'm definitely trying this. I currently have kb shortcuts defined for brightness up/down that invoke ddcutil. This really ought to be built into every OS. From what I've read, the catch is that DDC implementations are often very buggy and can cause problems, so it would be risky to do this out of the box.
I bet if windows had supported DDC/CI for the past decade monitors would work with it reliably. (Well, as reliably as any hardware peripheral)
Yeah, I suspect the reason DDC (and EDID) are so bad is that they're not critical for the monitor to perform its basic function, so there's no "evolutionary pressure" to improve it.
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#8Now could this fix the non-functional laptop monitor brightness buttons issue I had?
(Lenovo Legion 5, RTX 2060, while in hybrid/automatic GPU switching mode - brightness buttons had no effect.)
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#9I 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 th…
>there's TwinkleTray for Windows
For Windows I fiind ClickMonitorDDC[1] is a great app as it has more configuration options, and also lets you control other parameters such as volume, contrast, RGB, color profiles, etc., and also lets you control these individually via the mouse wheels scrolling over the tray icons, which for me is a must have UX wise.
Re: KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
#10I 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 th…
>there's TwinkleTray for Windows For Windows I fiind ClickMonitorDDC[1] is a great app as it has more configuration options, and also lets you control other parameters such as volume, contrast, RGB, color profiles, etc., and also lets you control these individually via the mouse wheels scrolling over the tray icons, which for me is a must have UX wise. [1] https://github.com/chrismah/ClickMonitorDDC7.2
Yes, that one is really good as well and I recommend it for more advanced use cases like setting manufacturer specific VCPs (e.g. E9 to 36 for PBP on Dells etc.)
But most people ask me for a Lunar alternative which by that they mean a pretty UI with some adaptive or automated brightness. That's why I usually recommend TwinkleTray.