Hello Linux Geeksters. 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.
Brightness Controller is capable of brightness management, for the display’s latop and any other monitor or projector, connected via VGA, VDI or HDMI.
To run Brightness Controller, you have to install the python-wxgtk2.8 package first. The app works with the xrandr library for X11.
$ 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
For an easier usage, create a launcher for this app.