How to change the Monitor brightness on Linux?

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Alexander Stolz picture Alexander Stolz · Jul 8, 2011 · Viewed 34.8k times · Source

How do I programmatically change the monitor brightness on Linux?

I'm using SLES 11.

Answer

christof picture christof · Dec 21, 2012

You can always use

xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 0.9

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