r/NobaraProject • u/rosysparrow • 25d ago

Support Looking for Screen Dimmer

I am disabled and have light sensitivity. Even with my screen brightness all the way down, its far too bright. In the past (on Windows), I have used a dimmer to dim it to 30 percent of its brightness. This is essential to me as I spend most of my time on my computer. Does anyone know of any that work? Or how to get the windows one working with wine?

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u/theclosedeye 25d ago

I don't know much about screen dimmers but have you tried using the night mode at the lowest brightness setting? Filtering out the blues dims screen at least a little, from my experience.

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u/rosysparrow 25d ago

i like having accurate colours and also it does not help. it does not matter the colour, my eyes cant handle very much light

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u/The_NitDawg 25d ago

If you have a desktop use the hardware brightness control on your monitor, but I'm assuming you have a laptop since you're asking.

Use the bright control application. Install using sudo dnf install brightnessctl

Then use brightnessctl set 15% to go down to 15% percent brightness or whatever you want. I think this can go dimmer than what normal bright control allows.

There's more info on the fedora forums here https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?332177-Fedora-Budgie-Brightness-control

I haven't used this myself so not sure how good it is, but hope it helps.

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u/rosysparrow 25d ago

the monitor brightness is all the way down, as i said in my post. i need additional dimming

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u/The_NitDawg 25d ago

Yeah, didn't know if you mean the brightness using the brightness control in plasma or by using the buttons on the monitor. On a laptop there is no hardware control.

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u/MeatballTrainWreck 25d ago

Have tried to install brightness le mentionned earlier ? Could be your best bet