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I'm trying to play a game (Deus Ex) which I have to modify the brightness since it is very dark in my ambiance. The game has a "Brightness" setting, but lately it doesn't work. I tried to figure out how to change it and find out that xgamma do a similar effect with xgamma -gamma 5. But whenever I change it, the settings revert back after almost a second (so yeah, my screen light up then shuts down). How can I either, make the xgamma settings permanent (or persistent) or I have to use another tool?

My system is a desktop.

Seemsly xrandr --output DVI-0 --brightness 2 do the same, but still reverts back to 0 whenever I apply the settings.

Each time I try to change it the following output fill the Xorg.0.log file:

[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "HWP", prod id 9798
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz eP)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0 57.28 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[ 14768.313] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 50.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)

So, apparently my monitor gets redetected each time.

Silly me! I have xflux with fluxgui activated, each time I would like to modify the settings xflux will be in my way. All commands worked, just that xflux would revert it back.

Those who want to change their gamma/brightness:

Use xrandr to list your outputs:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm

As you can see my output is DVI-0 to change the brightness:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --brightness 2

To change the gamma:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --gamma 2:2:1

I was hoping there was some interactive program for adjusting xrandr's settings (gamma/brightness in particular), but couldn't find anything.

So I wrote this shell script which allows some interactive adjustment of brightness/gamma, as well as saving/restoring the settings.

Save the file to irandr.sh, do a chmod u+x irandr.sh to make it executable, and run as ./irandr.sh <outputname>.

The d/f/D/F/j/k/J/K keys adjust the brightness (d/f/D/F) or gamma (j/k/J/K) settings by steps of 5 (lower case) or 1 (upper case.)

• 
  s saves the settings to the dotfile


• 
  l loads the settings from the dotfile


• 
  r resets brightness/gamma to the defaults (1.0)


• 
  q quits.

The dotfile for a given output is ~/irandr-<outputname>.dat. If you run without an argument, it will list the valid xrandr outputs.

You can append a -setonly argument to the command line, which will read the settings for the given display's dotfile, update the display, and exit. (Useful, perhaps, in a ~/.bashrc file to automatically set a gamma/brightness.)

#!/bin/bash
# irandr.sh, by Dale Gass (dale@gass.ca)
# Wed Apr 10 16:43:22 EDT 2019

# Process arguments
if [ "$1" != "" ]
then
 output="$1"
else
 echo "Usage: irandr.sh <outputname> [-setonly]"
 echo "(Settings saved to ~/.xrandr-<outputname>.dat)"
 echo
 echo "Valid outputs:"
 xrandr | egrep -v '^( |Screen)'
 exit 1
fi
setonly=0
if [ "$2" = "-setonly" ]; then setonly=1; fi

# Initialize variables, read for dotfile if exists
cmdhelp="d/f/D/F=brightness j/k/J/K=gamma r=reset s=save l=load q=quit"
brightness=100
gamma=100
dotfile=~/.irandr-"$output".dat
if [ -s "$dotfile" ]; then read brightness gamma <"$dotfile"; fi
if [ $setonly -eq 0 ]; then 
 echo $cmdhelp
 stty -echo raw intr $'00' # Allow single character input
fi

# Main loop for setting adjustment
echo 'Bright Gamma'
while :
do
 b=$(bc <<< "scale=2; $brightness/100") # Make 0.0-1.0
 g=$(bc <<< "scale=2; $gamma/100")
 xrandr --output "$output" --brightness "$b" --gamma "$g:$g:$g"
 printf "r%4d %4d " $brightness $gamma
 if [ $setonly -eq 1 ]; then echo; exit 0; fi

 read -n1 ch # Get input character from user
 case $ch in
 d) let brightness=brightness-5;; D) let brightness=brightness-1;;
 f) let brightness=brightness+5;; F) let brightness=brightness+1;;
 j) let gamma=gamma-5;; J) let gamma=gamma-1;;
 k) let gamma=gamma+5;; K) let gamma=gamma+1;;
 r) brightness=100; gamma=100;;
 s) echo "$brightness $gamma" >"$dotfile" && echo -e "Savedr";;
 l) read brightness gamma <"$dotfile" && echo -e "Loadedr";;
 q|$'03') break;;
 *) echo -e "$cmdhelpr";;
 esac
done

stty echo -raw intr $'03' # Undo single character input