slstatus/components/backlight.c, branch csobczak A custom configuration of the suckless status utility Revert "Add basic backlight percentage support" 2018-05-27T14:46:03+00:00 Aaron Marcher me@drkhsh.at 2018-05-27T14:46:03+00:00 c28643ce5bc8c7fd825e4eabbd915bad2b91dbd0 On OpenBSD the backlight percentage cannot be retrieved in a simple way. The only two solutions we are aware of for now are: - reading from /dev/ttyC0: which isn't possible without changing permissions or running slstatus as root - linking against xcb-xrandr: which is bloat and does not work in every case appearently This reverts commit 37724ac2c3f496f4736223d0d8e5d8fecb933590 for now. 
On OpenBSD the backlight percentage cannot be retrieved in a simple way.
The only two solutions we are aware of for now are:

 - reading from /dev/ttyC0: which isn't possible without changing
 permissions or running slstatus as root
 - linking against xcb-xrandr: which is bloat and does not work in every
 case appearently

This reverts commit 37724ac2c3f496f4736223d0d8e5d8fecb933590 for now.
Add basic backlight percentage support 2018-05-22T10:40:31+00:00 David Demelier markand@malikania.fr 2018-05-22T07:23:29+00:00 37724ac2c3f496f4736223d0d8e5d8fecb933590 At the moment linux only, but will add support for OpenBSD as well. 
At the moment linux only, but will add support for OpenBSD as well.