acpilight 1.2

Backward-compatibile xbacklight replacement

acpilight is a backward-compatibile replacement for xbacklight that uses the ACPI interface to set the display brightness. On modern laptops acpilight can control both display and keyboard backlight uniformly on either X11, the console or Wayland.

Website: https://gitlab.com/wavexx/acpilight
Licenses: GPL 3+
Package source: gnu/packages/linux.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install acpilight 1.2 as follows:

guix install acpilight@1.2

Or install the latest version:

guix install acpilight

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.