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Created April 21, 2017 22:00
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X window selective brightness control - using Xrandr and awk
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decrease-brightness.sh
BRIGHTNESS=`xrandr --verbose | grep -i brightness | cut -f2 -d ' ' | head -n1`
NEW_BRIGHTNESS=`awk '{print $1-$2}' <<<"$BRIGHTNESS 0.05"`
echo $NEW_BRIGHTNESS
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --brightness $NEW_BRIGHTNESS
xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --brightness $NEW_BRIGHTNESS
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increase-brightness.sh
BRIGHTNESS=`xrandr --verbose | grep -i brightness | cut -f2 -d ' ' | head -n1`
NEW_BRIGHTNESS=`awk '{print $1+$2}' <<<"$BRIGHTNESS 0.05"`
echo $NEW_BRIGHTNESS
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --brightness $NEW_BRIGHTNESS
xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --brightness $NEW_BRIGHTNESS
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normal-brightness.sh
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --brightness 1
xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --brightness 1
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