Re: to adjust the brigtness of the screen

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On Thursday 18 July 2019 04:02:13 David C. Rankin wrote:
> This is where you can create a script to monitor intel_backlight 
> and write the value out to, e.g. /usr/local/share/${USER}-backlight

Hello David,

I cannot create the file "${USER}-backlight" in /usr/local/share/
or I don't understand  (maybe the "$" ?)

Thanks, regards,

andré

> cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness >
> /usr/local/share/${USER}-backlight
> Then simply create another script (linked within ~/.trinity/Autostart) that
> will restore the brightness level on trinity startup, e.g.
> #!/bin/sh
> savedbl="/usr/local/share/${USER}-backlight"
> sysfile="/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"
> if [ -s "$savedbl" ]   ## if saved backlight file exists
> then
>     sudo sh -c "cat '"$savedbl"' > '"$sysfile"'"  ## restore saved backlight
> fi
> (just make sure the file is executable and that you have sudo privileges)

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