Creating a customized, more responsive e16 BrightnessDown key binding for very dark surroundings

[triantares]

@Thanatermesis

Is not 100 -> 50 too much? its entirely half, I assume some people would want to have it bright but not at max, for example 90% or 80%

It would be for some but then I did leave the brightness-up simply incremented 5%. So going up from 50 is easily resolved but then so do your scripts.
So might as well use them.

@Thanatermesis

but of course without making it a hand pain

In that sense I found that holding the key indeed keeps the script going down or up, so that's nice.
What I did on my machine is add a last line to the scripts to show which step it is:

yad --no-buttons --undecorated --text=" <b>`brightnessctl -m i | awk -F',' '{print $4}'`   `brightnessctl g`</b>   " --center --timeout=1 --image=preferences-system-brightness-lock

Which shows the current setting for 1 second and when holding the key, it updates real-time.

@Thanatermesis

A good setup I think can be to have it in steps of 10% between 20%-100%, and below 20% use your "divider" technique, until 1% which will be steps of 1 integer

I agree, but I would add the yad pop-up. It makes it all feel more responsive.

I do find that "brightness-elive up" in the same settings is too slow. Use case is more likely going into open sunlight and wanting the brightness as high as possible and as fast as possible.
I personally would stick to +5% overall in that case.

[Thanatermesis]

@triantares

What I did on my machine is add a last line to the scripts to show which step it is:

It looks quite cool (and useful)

@triantares

Which shows the current setting for 1 second and when holding the key, it updates real-time.

are you sure? or is just a bunch of new windows over the previous ones?

UPDATE: last version should work excelent, with a correct "not-jumpy" switch, notification implemented, and a lock system to avoid saturation of keypresses to allow keeping the key pressed

[triantares]

@Thanatermesis

or is just a bunch of new windows over the previous ones?

Don't think so but no way to check. Doesn't really matter either ..... they're gone after 1 sec, one way or another.