A collection of shell scripts as utilities
Move/Copy the .rules files into your udev rules directory
NOTE Symlinking does NOT work!
sudo cp udev_rules/*.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
Use sudo mv
or sudo ln -s
to move utility files to a place on the path
- I use /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -srfv backlight /usr/local/bin/backlight
sudo ln -srfv trackpoint /usr/local/bin/trackpoint
- n is any integer
- Value is capped at the reported maximum brightness for the device and floored at 1 (0 turns off the display)
backlight
- Passed without any arguments, gets the raw value of the current backlight
backlight %
- Gets the percentage of the current backlight
backlight n
- Sets the backlight to this raw value
backlight +n
- Increments the backlight raw value by this amount
backlight -n
- Decrements the backlight raw value by this amount
backlight n%
- Sets the backlight to this percentage of the total brightness
backlight +n%
- Increments the backlight percentage by this percentage amount
backlight -n%
- Decrements the backlight percentage by this percentage amount
trackpoint
- Passed without any arguments, reports the settings for trackpoint sensitivity and speed
trackpoint s
- Gets the sensitivity of the trackpoint
trackpoint p
- Gets the speed of the trackpoint
trackpoint s n
- Sets the trackpoint sensitivity to n
trackpoint p n
- Sets the trackpoint speed to n