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Setting Brightness Below Minimum on Wayland

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I use a Dell XPS 9520, and the manufacturer-specified minimum brightness (when /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness is 1) is simply way too bright and hurts my eyes in a dark environment. When I was using X11, I was able to work around this using xrandr to artificially reduce the brightness below the minimum. For example, the below command would set the screen to 40% brightness, multiplying the effect of normal brightness controls.
xrandr --output eDP-1 --brightness 0.4
However, xrandr does not work on Wayland and I have been unable to find anything to replace this functionality. The screen also does not support DDC/CI controls for programs like ddcutil. And if it's relevant, I'm using KDE Plasma 6.3 on NixOS. Is there any way to reduce brightness below the minimum on Wayland?
Asked by fin444 (166 rep)
Mar 27, 2025, 03:37 AM