Brightness issue

[u/fuck_critics]

I'm unable to decrease or increase the brightness i asked chatgpt for help typing commands for 3 hours straight and yet no solution 🥲 numbers are changing but brightness isn't help me I'm using arch on my hp omen 16 rtx4060

[u/ang-p]

i asked chatgpt for help typing commands for 3 hours straight

Did you spend 10 minutes with the wiki?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop#Screen_brightness

#LoveTheWiki

[u/ZuuRa_]

What de/wm you use?

[u/fuck_critics → u/ZuuRa_]

KDE Plasma on Arch Linux, running Wayland.

[u/ZuuRa_ → u/fuck_critics]

Is the one that doesn't work your external monitor or the built in one? Do you have brightnessctl installed?

[u/fuck_critics → u/ZuuRa_]

Built in one and yes I have brightnessctl installed it is recognition my display changing number but no change in brightness

[u/skinney6]

X or Wayland?

[u/fuck_critics → u/skinney6]

Wayland buddy

[u/skinney6 → u/fuck_critics]

Actually, what WM or DE? May be easier to do it there first. Like for me 'brightnessctl' didn't work for me so i mapped the keys to dms commands (niri and dms).

    // XF86MonBrightnessUp allow-when-locked=true { spawn "brightnessctl" "--class=backlight" "set" "+10%"; }
    // XF86MonBrightnessDown allow-when-locked=true { spawn "brightnessctl" "--class=backlight" "set" "10%-"; }
    XF86MonBrightnessUp allow-when-locked=true   { spawn "dms" "brightness" "set" "backlight:intel_backlight" "80%"; }
    XF86MonBrightnessDown allow-when-locked=true { spawn "dms" "brightness" "set" "backlight:intel_backlight" "35%"; }

[u/fuck_critics → u/skinney6]

Ok thanks man will let uk if it worked or not thanks a lot

[u/skinney6 → u/fuck_critics]

That's just an example. If you aren't using niri and dms that wont work for you.

[u/fuck_critics → u/skinney6]

I'm a noob i it's been 3 days on arch my first distro and I'm fucked 🫠 i will see kde plasma is the one I'm using if u were asking about that

[u/skinney6 → u/fuck_critics]

No problem. Just go slow. See if there is a utility you can use from the commend line that will adjust the brightness like 'brightnessctl'. Once you have that look into mapping that to they keyboard either tru KDE or some kind of remap util https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_remap_utilities

[u/fuck_critics → u/skinney6]

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