The return of brightness-control

Easy Excalibur has 'Dcontrol', which you will find in the "Setup" menu category. It is a GUI for the 'redshift' cli utility.

Forum member tammi806 installed the rshift_tray PET package. This is a tray applet, a GUI for 'redshift'. It has been in Easy before. Forum post:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=152645#p152645

...yes, I confirm, it works, but text is missing from the GUI.

Maybe that is because 'yad' is now the gtk3 version, not gtk2. 'rshift_tray' is forum member fredx181's baby; we will have to ask him for help to fix it.

There have been a lot of posts about these screen brightness/tint applications, for example:

https://bkhome.org/news/202002/screen-brightness-and-tint-control-tray-applet.html

https://bkhome.org/news/202412/new-dcontrol-pet.html

https://bkhome.org/news/202111/redshift-gui-tray-app.html

'brightness-control' and 'dcontrol' require the 'sct' utility, which was missing. An oversight; the Debian package is actually named 'xsct'. That is fixed.

Dcontrol is in the menu, fine, but we do need a tray applet, so I have gone back to 'brightness-control'. It is very simple, not much adjustment capability, but suits me. Dcontrol can be used for those that want more adjustments.

Note, brightness-control also uses yad, but it works fine.     

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