Our friend Amit, the developer of Brightness Controller has updated his brightness management software. As you know, Brightness Controller is capable of brightness management, for the display’s latop and any other monitor or projector, connected via VGA, VDI or HDMI.
The software is quite awesome and does its job well, but it supports only two monitors.
As I reminder, in this article I will show you how to install the Brightness Controller Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Linux Mint 14 Nadia and Linux Mint 13 Maya.
Install Python-wxgtk2.8:
$ sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8
Download the Brightness Controller Zip archive:
$ wget -c https://github.com/lordamit/Brightness/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip
To run the app, do this:
$ cd Brightness-master/src/
$ sudo chmod +x brightness.py
$ ./brightness.py
It was impossible to adjust the brightness on my Sony Viao running Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon. I tried lots of different solutions without success But finally this one worked. Thanks!!!!
Thanks ! The first solution that works on my laptop.
But it starts from a default dark brightness that I can’t set for the moment. Still searching….
Thanks, worked great.
–Thanks a lot man, I was searching this for a very long time and now problem solved…….!
–100% Working.
–Btw I’m using a ((ACER Notebook))
works fine ! also in linux mate 17!
Can you add also contrast /colortemp? have radeon hd3450 vga.. i guess nothing adjustable available in built in mint driver…
Thanks a lot. This saved my life.
I have been having the brightness problem for a long time, it happened in Ubuntu 12.04, Mint 15, 16 and 17.
I only managed to work it out in Mint 15, and the Mint 17 is showing no sign of correcting it. So disappointing that they let this persist for so long.
Could you please give some guidance in breaking down your programme into 2 parts, one adding up brightness and the other lowering it down, so I could then bind them to some keyboard shortcuts to mimic the Fn keys?
Thanks again.