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Newbie questions / Re: Trying to add brightnes co...

Last post by Filemon7 - Today at 06:41:57 AM

Solution is adding it by pip python packages installer: pip install brightness-controller-linux

On github there is writen that you need also PyQt5  so install by the same method and from apt ddcutil also libddcutil4  should help and restart.

I installed those both to test if it works it shows thst not find ddcutil but sliders working.

You need install pip by sudo apt install pip or pip3 depends of python version in repository.

But i was find that to not break python dependencies use pipx and install by sudo apt install pipx

Source: https://github.com/LordAmit/Brightness

To run write in terminal: brightness-controller

Good luck.

#2

Newbie questions / Trying to add brightnes contro...

Last post by jacatone12 - Today at 12:19:11 AM

Installed the latest SL KDE version on an old Dell Inspiron 1420 which has a rather dimm display.When trying to install brightnes-controller from a ppa I got the follow result:

admin1@inspiron1420:~$ sudo apt-cache search brigtness-controller
admin1@inspiron1420:~$   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/brightness-controller
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
admin1@inspiron1420:~$

Does this mean I need to install an 'add-apt-repository' feature? Anyone know a solution?

#3

Hardware / Re: Keyboard Macro Keys, Help?

Last post by Ze_Mind - November 30, 2023, 08:20:48 PM

This what I did,,

https://ibb.co/Zg3jj7j

#4

Hardware / Re: Keyboard Macro Keys, Help?

Last post by Ze_Mind - November 30, 2023, 04:54:21 PM

I even ran xev, and although the letter keys showed up, the G1-G6 keys never registered.

I feel that Linux can't touch those keys. I mean possibly they can, but I have to do a lot of digging, and really isn't worth it.

I'm not mad, like throwing the keyboard out the window. It is a very nice keyboard. I just might take the G# keys off and just put some duct tape over it so I don't accidentally hit it.

Edit: The above is for gamepads.. :)

#5

Hardware / Re: Keyboard Macro Keys, Help?

Last post by Filemon7 - November 30, 2023, 04:41:59 PM

Yeah, I have contrib and non-free

I have those two programs already installed.

Input Remapper doesn't work.

The macro keys are set to the F1-F6 keys. But I do not know how to change these.

https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox/

AntiMicroX is a graphical program used to map gamepad keys to keyboard, mouse, scripts and macros. You can use this program to control any desktop application with a gamepad on Linux🐧 and Windows 🪟.
It can be also used for generating SDL2 configuration (useful for mapping atypical gamepads to generic ones like xbox360).

Maybe something like that will help.

I now just guessing.

#6

Hardware / Re: Keyboard Macro Keys, Help?

Last post by Ze_Mind - November 30, 2023, 04:26:50 PM

Yeah, I have contrib and non-free

I have those two programs already installed.

Input Remapper doesn't work.

The macro keys are set to the F1-F6 keys. But I do not know how to change these.

#7

Hardware / Re: Keyboard Macro Keys, Help?

Last post by Filemon7 - November 30, 2023, 02:37:45 PM

Do you have enabled repository contrib and non-free ?

It maybe with wine emulator i enabled that by sudo dpkg --add-architecture  i386

Find xserver-xorg-input-kbd and install or  xserver-xorg-input-libinput.

Then test again input remapper.

Good luck.

#8

General discussion / Re: VLC 3.0.20

Last post by Filemon7 - November 30, 2023, 09:32:49 AM

https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/3.0.20/


sudo apt-get install git g++ make libtool automake autopoint pkg-config flex bison

Unpack .xz archive somewhere install libraries:

sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev libmad0-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev  libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libgcrypt20-dev liblua5.2-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libssl-dev libxcb-randr0-dev

Navigate to folder in terminal  by cd example: cd vlc then write  ./configure

Last step is write  make.

If you want  install it write sudo make install.

And thats all.

I will also write how to install codecs to compile with vlc also fix this guide if there is a problem.

Reedition from: https://staff.itee.uq.edu.au/ksb/howto/vlc-howto.html

Few codecs was taken from: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Compiling%20MPlayer

You can also run without installing by write ./vlc

#9

General discussion / Re: VLC 3.0.20

Last post by Filemon7 - November 30, 2023, 09:20:31 AM

Bad package name or there is no version 3.0.20 in repository but you can compile vlc from source code.

Here guide: https://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile/

#10

Hardware / Re: Keyboard Macro Keys, Help?

Last post by Ze_Mind - November 30, 2023, 07:12:24 AM

So you have that ?

Yeah, that's the program I found out about. I installed the .deb file.

Edit; This is what I get from Xinput:

Code Select Expand

chktex - Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
curtain - handy curtain for the desktop
gromit - GTK based tool to make annotations on screen
gromit-mpx - GTK+ based tool to make annotations on screen with multiple pointers
inputplug - XInput monitor
libxcb-xinput-dev - X C Binding, xinput extension, development files
libxcb-xinput0 - X C Binding, xinput extension
libxi-dev - X11 Input extension library (development headers)
libxi6 - X11 Input extension library
lxde - metapackage for LXDE
lxinput - LXDE keyboard and mouse configuration
librust-winapi-dev - Raw FFI bindings for all of Windows API - Rust source code
librust-x11-dev - X11 library bindings for Rust - Rust source code
librust-x11rb-dev - Rust bindings to X11 - Rust source code
librust-xcb-dev - Rust safe bindings for XCB - Rust source code
spotlighter - gtk interface to make annotations on the screen
xinput - Runtime configuration and test of XInput devices
xinput-calibrator - Generic touchscreen calibration program for X.Org
kodi-peripheral-joystick - Kodi Joystick Library

Edit2: I gtg right now, so I'll check back here later.