gddccontrol has been around for ages on Linux and it's not exclusive to a single desktop environment (and I'm sure there's a plethora of alternatives, but that's just the one I use).
Linux has many such apps, but many are just CLI based, or buggy/janky GUIs, or just don't work at all, depending on what HW/OS you run.
Having a great looking app the integrates seamlessly into your DE and justworks(TM)(hopefully) is big step in the linux world.
>but gddccontrol has a GUI, has been supported since 2004 and works fine in 2023
@Garcia98 gddccontrol GUI might have existed since whenever, and maybe it works fine for you, but for me it has been extremely buggy on Ubuntu 22.04 to the point it is unusable so I welcome other similar apps if they improve my experience.
Therefore I don't get your outrage on people promoting this other app. You are free to keep using gddccontrol, the existence of other similar apps doesn't mean gddccontrol will stop working for you.
> Therefore I don't get your outrage on people promoting this other app. You are free to keep using gddccontrol, the existence of other similar apps doesn't mean gddccontrol will stop working for you.
Just a note — “outrage” describes a state of extreme agitation, it is probably not accurate to use it to describe the post you’ve responded to.
Sure, but gddccontrol has a GUI, has been supported since 2004 and works fine in 2023, that's why I find it a bit odd that he didn't know what to recommend to Linux users until now.
Maybe because it's discoverability is bad. I've been looking for something to control screen brightness because I wanted to give Linux another shot, so this random post was a lucky find.
If I look for this topic on ddg I either find a Ubuntu wiki entry(not really relevant to me on suse with KDE), the arch Wiki which focuses solely on technical details and clis. The first ten articles are clis, a lot of them truly strange ones like writing magic numbers into random system files.
Not a single mention of gddc tho, and the manpage is not a very good advertisement either...
I knew about gddccontrol, it's just not what people were looking for when they were asking me about an alternative to Lunar. I obviously gave them any alternative I could find, but all the responses I got were that a simpler easily reachable UI and keyboard shortcuts for changing brightness were what they expected.
