{"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. So I wrote a shell script to use <strong>xrandr<\/strong> command easily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px\">\n<p>You can clone the shell script from <strong>git@github.com:manvendrasinghig\/brightness.git<\/strong> using the standard <strong>git clone <em>url<\/em><\/strong> command from a terminal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:15px\">\n<p>Manvendra Singh<br \/>\nmanvendra@intelligrape.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 xrandr command. A similar is xbacklight command, but it&#8217;s not of much use. xrandr is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1},"categories":[1],"tags":[1148,1147,1146,1145],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}