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README

Light 0.7
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Copyright (C) 2012 - Fredrik Haikarainen
Program is licensed under the GPLv3 (Read LICENSE before contiuing)

- Description ---

"Light" is a program to control backlight-controllers in GNU/Linux-systems. It is the successor of "LightScript",
which is a bash-script with the same purpose, and tries to maintain the same functionality.

It features:

* Works excellent where other software has proven unusable/problematic(xbacklight etc) thanks to how
it operates internally, and the fact that it doesn't need X.

* Automatically figures out the best controller to use depending on its resolution, making full use
of the underlying hardware, if you have a "bad system" the controller to use is overridable by the
/etc/light/override-file

* Written in ANSI-C89 -- which practically makes it as portable as a program can be, with the exception
of the glibc-dependency.

* Has a default minimumcap of 5% brightness, easily changeable in /etc/light/minlight. This to prevent
screens from turning pitchblack, since some controllers do that on 0 brightness.

- Usage ---

Executed without arguments, light prints usage-information that is pretty self-explanatory.

Examples:

Set brightness to 40 percent:
light 40

Increase brightness with 10% and supress output:
light -aq 10

Print the maximum-brightness of the best controller and exit:
light -m


- Installation ---

1. Install the neccesary buildtools (make, gcc etc)

2. Type "make stable"

3. Optionally make the light-binary executable by regular users by running makeexec.sh as root

4. Create a symbolic link to /usr/bin

5. Enjoy!

Optional:

6. Create /etc/light/minlight to set a minimumcap (5 is good for highresolution controllers)



- Contact ---

In case of any feedback(problems/bugs, feature-requests etc) contact me directly on fredrik.haikarainen@gmail.com