#!/bin/bash # control external monitor brightness using ddc/ci level="$1" if [ $level -lt 0 ] || [ $level -gt 100 ]; then echo "brightness must be between 0 and 100" exit 1 fi dpys=$(ddcutil detect --async | grep Display | cut -f2 -d' ' | tr '\n' ' ') # NOTE: as nice as it would be, it seems that I can't run all of these in # parallel since ddc will get confused (idk why) for d in $dpys; do ddcutil setvcp 10 "$level" -d "$d" > /dev/null done wait