liblux

Overview

liblux is a minimal C library (C++ compatible) for interacting with screen brightness levels on Linux systems. The library offers a simple to use and well documented API for getting and setting screen brightness using both raw values and percentages.

Compilation

Compilation of the library is extremely simple, but will require you to have the tup build system installed:

$ tup           # To build the library
# make install  # To install the library, requires root privileges

After compilation and installation, you will be able to build programs using the liblux library that are dynamically or statically linked.

Documentation

All library functions are documented via manual pages. After installing the library using the above commands, the manual pages will be installed on your system and you’ll be able to read the documentation using the man command as such:

$ man luxget  # To view documentation for the luxget(3) function

If you prefer to view documentation in your browser (why?), all manuals are also available over at my website. Here is the link to view the manual providing an overview of the entire library, for example.