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Control Screen Brightness from Ubuntu Terminal

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Karim Buzdar
Aug 5, 2019

In this article, we will describe how you can adjust the brightness of your monitor using the Ubuntu command line. This includes getting the name of your monitor device and adjusting the brightness level, both using the Xrandr utility.
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Karim Buzdar

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