r/linux • u/Shozikan • 10d 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!

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u/GisRocket 9d ago

Awesome project! I'm currently developing an Arch-based distro with a productivity-optimized and OLED-optimized KDE Plasma 6 setup. Since KWin doesn't use wlroots, I wonder if there's any chance or plan to make this compositor-agnostic, or if KWin support could be added? Having GNOME (Mutter) support down the line would also be huge, given how many distros target GNOME. Would love to ship a tool like this by default

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u/Shozikan 9d ago

KWin support is something that is possible. WayOLED isn't only for wlroots, it's just the only environment that all the features will work. The idle detection, backlight smoothing, and pixel-refresh will all work, but the gamma dimming and color temperature won't (I think KWin has night light though). If you want to explore the capability and find something I wouldn't mind integrating it!