brightness-cli

A program to read and control device brightness.

Supported:

• Windows
• Linux

Usage

Increase brightness by 10%, e.g. from 70% to 80%:

brightness-cli set +10%

Decrease brightness by 10%, e.g. from 70% to 60%:

brightness-cli set -10%

Set brightness to 40%, e.g. from 80% to 40%:

brightness-cli set 40%

Command-Line Help for brightness-cli

This document contains the help content for the brightness-cli command-line program.

Command Overview:

• brightness-cli↴
• brightness-cli completion↴
• brightness-cli set↴
• brightness-cli get↴
• brightness-cli list↴

brightness-cli

Read and control device brightness

Usage: brightness-cli <COMMAND>

Subcommands:

• completion — Generate completions for a shell
• set — Set brightness of a device
• get — Get brightness of a device
• list — List each device and its brightness

brightness-cli completion

Generate completions for a shell

Usage: brightness-cli completion <SHELL>

Arguments:

• <SHELL> — Shell to generation completions for

  Possible values: bash, carapace, elvish, fig, fish, nushell, powershell, zsh

brightness-cli set

Set brightness of a device

Usage: brightness-cli set [OPTIONS] [ACTION]

Arguments:

• <ACTION> — Modify the percentage of brightness

  • Increase: +5%
  • Decrease: -5%
  • Set to specific: 40%
  • max or 100% sets to max brightness
  • min or 0% sets to min brightness

  Default value: 100%

Options:

• --device <DEVICE> — Set brightness for this device (by default, sets the first device)
• -s, --silent — Silence output
• --json — Output JSON

brightness-cli get

Get brightness of a device

Usage: brightness-cli get [OPTIONS]

Options:

• --device <DEVICE> — Get brightness of this device (by default, get the first device)
• -s, --silent — Silence output
• --json — Output JSON

brightness-cli list

List each device and its brightness

Usage: brightness-cli list [OPTIONS]

Options:

• --json — Output JSON

Installation

Shell

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/nik-rev/brightness-cli/releases/latest/download/brightness-cli-installer.sh | sh

Homebrew

brew install nik-rev/tap/brightness-cli

PowerShell

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/nik-rev/brightness-cli/releases/latest/download/brightness-cli-installer.ps1 | iex"

Cargo

cargo install brightness-cli

Nix

nix profile install github:nik-rev/brightness-cli/main