MATE-POWER-BACKLIGHT-HELPER(1)

✨ MATE-POWER-BACKLIGHT-HELPER ✨

okay bestie, sit down, because we're about to talk about the mate-power-backlight-helper page from section 1 of the manual 💅 this is the one that handles your screen brightness and honestly? it's giving tiny-but-mighty.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mate-power-backlight-helper — the lil helper application for MATE's power management backlight control 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mate-power-backlight-helper [ --help ] [ --set-brightness ] [ --get-brightness ] [ --get-max-brightness ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So mate-power-backlight-helper is a helper utility for controlling the backlight of TFT displays, and it does that via the MATE power manager userspace daemon. yes, the daemon does the heavy lifting, this one's the backstage icon. 👑

important bestie alert: mate-power-backlight-helper requires to be run with root privileges. no root, no brightness, that's just the vibe check it gives you. 🔒

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --help — shows you a summary of the options. the classic "what do u even do" button. 🙈
• --set-brightness BRIGHTNESS_LEVEL — sets the brightness to the level you hand it. you pick the number, it does the thing. ✨
• --get-brightness — gets the current brightness. it tells you where you're at, emotionally (brightness-wise). 💡
• --get-max-brightness — gets the number of brightness levels supported. i.e. how high this thing can actually go. 🔥

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

mate-power-manager (1). go read that one next, it's the main character of this whole situation. 💜

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

This manual page has been written by Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). we love a generous king. 👑✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — dated 21 April, 2014, no cap. the manual name is MATE-POWER-BACKLIGHT-HELPER and it lives in section 1, so go forth, set those brightness levels, and stay radiant (literally). 🦋💖🌸