forzalife/BrightnessTray

Small Windows utility to control laptop screen brightness from the system tray. Feel free to fix bugs!

BrightnessTray

A simple Windows utility which lets you control your laptop screen brightness, right from your system tray.

Use your mouse/scroll wheel!

Extra features

• Power off the laptop screen, and any connected monitors if possible.
• Sleep mode shortcut.
• Enable 'Caffiene' mode to keep the monitor from turning off during idle.
• Enable 'Autostart' to put a shortcut in the startup folder.

Customisation

• Show a static icon in the tray with the /NoTextIcon launch parameter
• Hide the brightness text label in the fly-out window with the /NoPercentageText launch parameter

Download

Binaries are available on the releases page for this repo on GitHub.

Attributions

BrightnessTray is released under the GPLv3. See LICENSE.

• Thanks to David Warner's WPF Notification Area Icon sample code, from http://blog.quppa.net/2011/01/03/windows-7-style-notification-area-applications-in-wpf-recap-sample/