{"id":3489,"date":"2014-06-19T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:29:26","slug":"wildguppy-adjust-screen-brightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/wildguppy-adjust-screen-brightness\/","title":{"rendered":"Use WildGuppy in Ubuntu To Adjust Screen Brightness Automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Change<\/a><\/p>\n

WildGuppy is a simple application that automatically adjusts Ubuntu laptop’s screen brightness depending on one’s sitting environment.<\/b><\/p>\n

The app changes your laptop’s screen brightness by using camera samples taken at a user definable interval. Besides that, you can always set the brightness manually from Brightness Levels menu. When you choose this option, webcam sampling process will stop!<\/p>\n

\"change<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Feeling lucky<\/b> option, it takes a sample from your webcam at that time you click on it and set the right brightness level and will not take any further samples.<\/p>\n

Install WildGuppy in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s recommended to install the app from developer’s PPA. After that, you can receive updates by Ubuntu’s Software Updater.<\/p>\n

To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fantasyleague0629\/wildguppy<\/pre>\n
Then install WildGuppy via:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wildguppy<\/pre>\n
Works on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.<\/p>\n
Make WildGuppy running at startup:<\/b><\/p>\n
Run command to edit the config file. <\/p>\n
sudo gedit ~\/.config\/autostart\/wildguppy-gtk.desktop<\/pre>\n
Type in your password when prompted. Note that terminal will not display your password when typing, just type in mind and hit enter.<\/p>\n
When the file opens, paste below content and save it.<\/p>\n
[Desktop Entry]
\nType=Application
\nExec=wildguppy-gtk
\nHidden=false
\nNoDisplay=false
\nX-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
\nName[en_US]=WildGuppy
\nName=WildGuppy
\nComment[en_US]=
\nComment=\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\"auto-start-wildguppy\"<\/a><\/p>\n
via: github.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WildGuppy is a simple application that automatically adjusts Ubuntu laptop’s screen brightness depending on one’s sitting environment. The app changes your laptop’s screen brightness by using camera samples taken at a user definable interval. Besides that, you can always set the brightness manually from Brightness Levels menu. When you choose this option, webcam sampling process […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1104,855],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-adjust-screen-brightness","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}