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seniorsassycat

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Registered: 2011-08-27

Posts: 76

Are there tools that let you dim one screen instead of both?

I have a multi monitor system and when I'm watching movies I'd like to dim the screen not showing the movie.

I found [this tool](https://github.com/stereohead/darkscreen), but it's transparency doesn't work. I use compton and I can use compton-trans to set the transparency of the window, but the default
transparency doesn't work. Even with transparency I don't like the tool because you cannot click through to background windows.

Does anyone know of a tool that will let me dim select monitors?

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: Are there tools that let you dim one screen instead of both?

Use xrandr's --brightness option?

seniorsassycat

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Registered: 2011-08-27

Posts: 76

Re: Are there tools that let you dim one screen instead of both?

I'll look into that, but it seems to conflict with redshift.