The SI unit of illuminance, equal to one lumen per square metre.
lux is a cli tool for controlling the brightness of external monitors that use DDC.
- Set monitor brightness
- Set monitor contrast
- Multiple monitor support
See releases for pre-built binaries.
choco install lux
Run lux --help to see options.
Lux uses set and get verbs. Values must be between 0 and 100.
- Does not work over SSH. This is due to a limitation of the Win32 API being used.
- Capability checking has not been implemented since I encountered a bug when attempting to use it.
Wouldn't be possible without the work to translate the calls to the Win32 API by Alexander Horn in DisplayConfiguration.cs.