Switched from Light to Brightnessctl

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/.config/qtile/statusbar/brightnesscontrol b/.config/qtile/statusbar/brightnesscontrol
index 304c187..29bbd83 100755
--- a/.config/qtile/statusbar/brightnesscontrol
+++ b/.config/qtile/statusbar/brightnesscontrol
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
 
 function send_notification {
   icon=/usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/16x16/actions/brightnesssettings.svg
-  brightness=$(light -G)
+  brightness=$(brightnessctl g)
+  brightness=$((brightness *100 / 255 ))
   brightness=$(echo "$brightness" | awk '{print ($0-int($0)<0.499)?int($0):int($0)+1}')
   # Make the bar with the special character ─ (it's not dash -)
   # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
   bar=$(seq -s "─" 0 $((brightness / 10 )) | sed 's/[0-9]//g')
-  #brightness=$((brightness *100 / 255 ))
+  # brightness=$((brightness *100 / 255 ))
   #echo $bar
   #echo $test
   # Send the notification
@@ -25,18 +26,19 @@ function send_notification {
 case $1 in
   up)
     # increase the backlight by 5%
-    light -A 5
+    brightnessctl s +5
     send_notification
     canberra-gtk-play -i audio-volume-change
     ;;
   down)
     # decrease the backlight by 5%
-    light -U 5
+    brightnessctl s 5-
     send_notification
     canberra-gtk-play -i audio-volume-change
     ;;
   *)
-    brightness=$(light -G)
+    brightness=$(brightnessctl g)
+    brightness=$((brightness *100 / 255 ))
     brightness=$(echo "$brightness" | awk '{print ($0-int($0)<0.499)?int($0):int($0)+1}')
     icon="󰃞"
     printf "%s" "$icon $brightness" "%"