{"id":9941,"date":"2013-03-18T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:54:24","slug":"shell-script-to-control-the-brightness-of-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/shell-script-to-control-the-brightness-of-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell script to control the brightness of display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem I was facing for sometime is setting brightness of my laptop that is running Ubuntu 12.10. Unfortunately this function is not\u00a0 available in my laptop. So I started my investigation to get this functionality. Then I found the <strong>xrandr<\/strong> command. A similar is <strong>xbacklight<\/strong> command, but it&#8217;s not of much use. <strong>xrandr<\/strong> is very typical to use, believe me it&#8217;s not handy to use for a day to day practice. 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