software screen brightness in x?

tolle · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject: software screen brightness in x?

Are there any way to make my screen brighter the sofware way? Sortoff like the brightness functions in mplayer and other players. Becuse my screen is rather dark. And a little brightness wouldnt hurt.

Tiber · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject:

xgamma -gamma X.XXX

X.XXX is a number of brightness. 1 is baseline. Keep in mind things will look washed out, and things that don't render through the X server (IE: Quake3 running DRI) will not honor the setting.

tolle · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 7:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks, tought I managed to fix it right before you posted with the gamma tag in the xfree config file... Just gotta fix xv now so i can use totem as my default player... (I love gtk2 apps).

tolle · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 7:41 pm Post subject:

Got the brightness right in totem to, by making it use x11, and its able to scale it to fullscreen..