til/system/changing-brightness-from-console.md
2021-07-19 22:01:50 +03:00

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Story: Today is my first day with Arch. Whatever problem I'm facing is clearly documented in Arch Wiki. I'm falling in love with the system. It's just another level. I feel like I don't even need to create TIL files anymore as everything is just couple of keystrokes away. I'll see how it goes.

Read this and you are done :D

Here is the tl;dr part.

Run ls /sys/class/backlight/ to see which graphics card is managing your backlight. I'm assuming you get an ouput like intel_backlight. Then run this:

ls /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight
actual_brightness bl_power brightness device/
max_brightness power/ scale subsystem/ type uevent

Read the max_brightness value and then set your brightness to something smaller than that value:

cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness
echo 100 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

Note: You should be root to execute the previous command. If you want to modify it without root priveleges:

/etc/udev/rules.d/backlight.rules

RUN+="/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"
RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"

and add yourself to the video group.

sudo usermod -aG video $USER

Now you can use light.