Getting Started

Clightd is a bus interface that lets you easily set screen brightness, gamma temperature and get ambient brightness through webcam frames capture.
Als sensors are supported too.

Build deps

• libsystemd >= 221 (systemd/sd-bus.h) or elogind (elogind/sd-bus.h)
• libudev or libeudev (libudev.h)
• libmodule >= 3.1.0 (module/module_easy.h, module/modules_easy.h, module/map.h)
• cmake >= 3.5
• gcc or clang
• pkg-config
• polkit (it is used at compile time only to know if Clightd must have a dep on polkitd.service or polkit.service)

Needed only if built with gamma support:

• libxrandr (X11/extensions/Xrandr.h)
• libx11 (X11/Xlib.h)

Needed only if built with dpms support:

• libxext (X11/extensions/Xext.h)
• libx11 (X11/Xlib.h)

Needed only if built with idle time support:

• libxss (X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h)
• libx11 (X11/Xlib.h)

Needed only if built with ddcutil support:

• ddcutil >= 0.9.0 (ddcutil_c_api.h)

Runtime deps:

• shared objects from build libraries
• polkit