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diff --git a/.config/qtile/statusbar/brightnesscontrol b/.config/qtile/statusbar/brightnesscontrol
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# You can call this script like this:
+# brightnessControl up
+# brightnessControl down
+
+# Script inspired by these wonderful people:
+# https://github.com/dastorm/volume-notification-dunst/blob/master/volume.sh
+# https://gist.github.com/sebastiencs/5d7227f388d93374cebdf72e783fbd6a
+
+function send_notification {
+  icon=/usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/16x16/actions/brightnesssettings.svg
+  brightness=$(light -G)
+  brightness=$(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 ))
+  #echo $bar
+  #echo $test
+  # Send the notification
+  notify-send -i "$icon" -r 5555 -u normal "$bar  $brightness"
+}
+
+case $1 in
+  up)
+    # increase the backlight by 5%
+    light -A 5
+    send_notification
+    canberra-gtk-play -i audio-volume-change
+    ;;
+  down)
+    # decrease the backlight by 5%
+    light -U 5
+    send_notification
+    canberra-gtk-play -i audio-volume-change
+    ;;
+  *)
+    brightness=$(light -G)
+    brightness=$(echo "$brightness" | awk '{print ($0-int($0)<0.499)?int($0):int($0)+1}')
+    icon="󰃞"
+    printf "%s" "$icon $brightness" "%"
+    ;;
+esac