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      ubuntoutou
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      I lower the display brightness to its minimum when in the dark but I find this minimum a bit too high. In the dark, the brightness is a bit blinding. How would it be possible to alter this minimum?

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        Giiba
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        I agree. But I think it is a hardware limitation, not one under a user or programmer's control.

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        • arubislanderA
          arubislander
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          At least for the BQ M10 it is not a hardware limitation, but a choice when the image was built. Minimum brightness was set to around 10% of maximum. You can set it lower, but it is clunky, and I am not sure if the procedure is the same for each device.

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          • hankschwieH
            hankschwie
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            Hi!

            You could try another theme, like suru dark; UT Tweak Tool is your friend...

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              ubuntoutou @hankschwie
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              @hankschwie

              UT Tweak Tool themes have no effect on the brightness of apps.

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              • FlaF
                Fla
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                You can manually change the minimum brightness you want in /usr/share/repowerd/device-configs/ picking the file of your device. To do that, you need to mount the filesystem in write mode with sudo mount -o remount,rw /.

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                  ubuntoutou @Fla
                  last edited by ubuntoutou

                  @Fla

                  Thanks Fla. I have edited the file config-default.xml and changed the line

                   <integer name="config_screenBrightnessSettingMinimum">10</integer>
                  

                  to

                   <integer name="config_screenBrightnessSettingMinimum">1</integer>
                  

                  and rebooted the device.

                  But the minimum brightness remains the same. Have I missed something? Do I need to run some kind of init command to enable the change?

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                  • hankschwieH
                    hankschwie @ubuntoutou
                    last edited by hankschwie

                    @ubuntoutou
                    Yes, you're right. But IMHO at least the overall appearance of white text on black background is less bright then vice versa.

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                      ubuntoutou @hankschwie
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                      @hankschwie

                      White text on black background is only for the system, not for apps like the web browser.

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                      • hankschwieH
                        hankschwie
                        last edited by hankschwie

                        Well, I'd say it works for most of the apps: Dekko2, Filemanager, OpenStore, UTTT, OSM Scout server, Contacts, Notes, Weather uMPD, calculator etc. etc... Even Morph has a dark frame... In others you can switch the layout - Sturm Reader, EpubViewer, Document Viewer, Writer...

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