#linux #devices #system #akarui

app akarui

A lightweight screen backlight tool for linux

3 releases

Uses new Rust 2024

new 0.1.2 Apr 21, 2025
0.1.1 Apr 21, 2025
0.1.0 Apr 21, 2025

#299 in Filesystem

GPL-3.0-only

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akarui

A lightweight /sys/class/backlight/* wrapper, to control the backlight of screens on linux systems

installation

cargo install akarui

usage

# the default device is the first device found
akarui get --device="intel_backlight" # returns the backlight percentage of the default/selected device
akarui set 100 # sets the backlight percentage of a device to 100
akarui list # lists all the available devices
akarui load # loads all the screen backlight levels from the config file

Dependencies

~1–12MB
~83K SLoC