How to Install and Uninstall illum Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: December 26,2024

1. Install "illum" package

This guide let you learn how to install illum on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                illum
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "illum" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall illum on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                illum
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the illum package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package illum:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : illum
Version : 0.5-1.4
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 136.1 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : illum-0.5-1.4.src
Upstream URL : https://github.com/jmesmon/illum
Summary : A daemon that responds to brightness keys by changing the backlight level
Description :
While there are tools that can be configured to adjust brightness illum adjusts
brightness as soon as you install and enable it.
It uses exponential brightness stepping which happens to work well with many
screens and is hard to achieve with a plain shell script bound to a key with
more generic tool.