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Adjust brightness on 2nd display?
You can't, I suggest using a 3rd party application.
There is no built in application for changing the brightness of an external monitor on elementary.
This is also true of basically all the Linux ...
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How do I change my display brightness?
Proper way to do it should be via System Settings -> Power -> Display brightness
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Making brightness work on Elementary OS Loki with fn key
I found this: answer
and this worked for me from his answer:
P.S: I have asus too, but I got X550JX model.
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Is brightness control supposed to work on desktop systems / external displays?
This is not specific to a elementary. External monitors configurations are managed by themselves. You can control your laptops brightness because the monitor is directly managed by your laptops ...
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Brightness jumps to 100% after log out/lock on freya stable (Fresh Installation)
This bug has been reported on Launchpad before,
100% initial brightness on boot [laptops]. Please mark it as "it affects me" , provide more informations to help the dev fix it or put a bounty on it ...
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How do I change my display brightness?
I've fix the problem: I had to change my brightness in Windows. Now all is normal. Thanks for the help.
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Loki - MBPr 15 - Screen Brightness doesn't work
I found that after running setpci I needed to reload the apple_gmux module, so my /etc/rc.local looks like this:
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser ...
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Plug/Unplug Brightness Option
this is what worked for me. Now, I can set the screen brightness with my function keys, or the gui, and when I plug in the AC adapter the brightness remains constant. The computer also starts up ...
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Brightness controls not working on Dell XPS 15 with Nvidia GPU
Actually it turns out to be an OLED issue with all Linux distros. Returning the laptop and purchasing one that doesn’t have an OLED display.
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Brightness controls not working on Dell XPS 15 with Nvidia GPU
Maybe this is a kernel compatibility problem, maybe because your laptop is very new the screen brightness module is not yet built in 5.4.0-80-generic, try installing a more recent kernel.
If you'd ...
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Is brightness control supposed to work on desktop systems / external displays?
(Above answer is more helpful :D)
It is quite common for attached external monitors to not have bound brightness controls in the same way laptops do. To adjust brightness of the external monitors I ...
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Add a brightness slider to the top bar? Using 5.1 Hera on a Surface Pro 2
I found the brightness slider under the Battery icon drop-down menu:
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How to auto adjust screen brightness?
You should check wether your current graphics card drivers are up-to-date. Moreover, disabling such drivers can help to see if the issue is fixed. If using the intel-based graphics card, you can use ...
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How to set shortcut for brightness
Use the instructions on this page, but instead go to Custom and select the + button to add a new keyboard shortcut. In the custom command, put xdotool key XF86MonBrightnessDown or xdotool key ...
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Brightness Controls not Working with NVIDIA Drivers
I can't change the display brightness via FN-Hotkey either. It work's on the energycontrol-settings.
What's the downside of the nuveau-driver for laptops?
I do have another problem, probably related ...
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Cannot change brightness with Nvidia drivers installed
I had the same issue.
This is what I am doing as a workaround:
sudo apt install xbacklight
Once installed go to System Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts>Custom>
and bind the follow commands to keys of ...
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Loki - MBPr 15 - Screen Brightness doesn't work
This code works for me, same might help you.. give a try!
sudo apt install xbacklight
then run
xbacklight -set 15
15 is the percentage of backlight you gonna use. You can change any percentage ...
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how do i change my screen brightness?
There are two solutions that come to my mind:
First one is to use the old kernel. On boot you need to open Grub >> Advanced options. There you can find the older versions.
Second solution is using "...
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Dim screen with battery indicator and mousewheel on elementary os
The power indicator (package wingpanel-indicator-power) in elementary OS is not the same as the battery indicator of Ubuntu.
This functionality does not exist here, so you cannot "activate" it.
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Overheating Issue on MacbookAir 6,2
You should install TLP and Thermald
Be careful, TLP is NOT compatible with acpid or Laptop_mode_tools.
One more tweak:
open a terminal and type
gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
then look for
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Adjust brightness on 2nd display?
Install Brightness Controller with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/brightness-controller
sudo apt update
For Version 1 with up to 4 Monitor Support:
sudo apt-get ...
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How do I change my display brightness?
Use a bash script!
My script based on kagronick's one is super easy to use, just set a number from 0 to 100:
Usage:
chmod +x light
./light 50
This sets brightness to 50%
Find it here:
https://github....
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