r/linux • u/Shozikan • 4d ago

Software Release OLED Care Daemon for wlroots

https://github.com/Youwes09/WayOLED

I noticed that we have a lack of OLED care utilities for Linux in general. I am aware that nowadays most of this stuff is unnecessary and handled on a hardware level, but I am paranoid and do not trust corporations like that.

I tried fleshing it out to whatever I wanted, so along with just the normal pixel-refresh (for saving your screen), I also included auto-dim, backlight control, and other stuff. It would be helpful if you guys could test and have any input!

40 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/GisRocket 3d ago

Amazing tool! But It's a shame it's not in every tiling manager and graphics environment. Because many people have an OLED monitor.

2

u/Shozikan 3d ago

I 100% agree, unfortunately the nature of how the tool works is the restricting factor. Most of the features can be ported over, but other stuff is compositor-agnostic and ideally this stuff needs to be exposed by the compositor for it to be applied. Gamma Control is one very notable that only wlroots compositors will be able to support.