mate-power-backlight-helper(1)

mate-power-backlight-helper1

Helper application for mate's power management backlight control

Usage

mate-power-backlight-helper [--help] [--set-brightness] [--get-brightness] [--get-max-brightness]

Overview

mate-power-backlight-helper is a helper utility for controlling the backlight of TFT displays via the MATE power manager userspace daemon.

The mate-power-backlight-helper requires to be run with root privileges.

Options

--help

Show summary of options.

--set-brightness BRIGHTNESS_LEVEL

Set the given brightness.

--get-brightness

Get the current brightness.

--get-max-brightness

Get the number of brightness levels supported.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–9
  2. 10–Arch

Author

This manual page has been written by Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

From mate-power-manager 1.28.1-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.