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DESCRIPTION

The backlight module displays the current backlight level.

CONFIGURATION

Option	Typeof	Default	Description
interval	integer	2	The interval in which information gets polled.
device	string		The name of the preferred backlight device to display. If left empty, a device will be chosen automatically. Both screen backlights (the udev backlight subsystem) and keyboard backlights (LEDs in the udev leds subsystem, e.g. white:kbd_backlight) are supported; name such an LED here to control it. When left empty, a screen backlight is always preferred for automatic selection.
format	string	{percent}%	The format, how information should be displayed. On {} data gets inserted.
max-length	integer		The maximum length in characters the module should display.
min-length	integer		The minimum length in characters the module should accept.
align	float		The alignment of the label within the module, where 0 is left-aligned and 1 is right-aligned. If the module is rotated, it will follow the flow of the text.
justify	string		The alignment of the text within the module's label, allowing options 'left', 'right', or 'center' to define the positioning.
rotate	integer		Positive value to rotate the text label (in 90 degree increments).
states	object		A number of backlight states which get activated on certain brightness levels. See waybar-states(5).
on-click	string		Command to execute when the module is clicked.
on-click-middle	string		Command to execute when middle-clicked on the module using mouse scroll wheel.
on-click-right	string		Command to execute when the module is right-clicked.
on-update	string		Command to execute when the module is updated.
on-scroll-up	string		Command to execute when performing a scroll up on the module. This replaces the default behaviour of brightness control.
on-scroll-down	string		Command to execute when performing a scroll down on the module. This replaces the default behaviour of brightness control.
smooth-scrolling-threshold	double		Threshold to be used when scrolling.
reverse-scrolling	bool	false	Option to reverse the scroll direction for devices other than a mouse (touchpad, trackpad, etc).
reverse-mouse-scrolling	bool	false	Option to reverse the scroll direction for mice.
scroll-step	float	1.0	The speed at which to change the brightness when scrolling.
min-brightness	double	0.0	The minimum brightness of the backlight.
tooltip	bool	true	Option to disable tooltip on hover.
tooltip-format	string		Text to be displayed in the tooltip.
menu	string		Action that popups the menu.
menu-file	string		Location of the menu descriptor file. There need to be an element of type GtkMenu with id menu
menu-actions	array		The actions corresponding to the buttons of the menu.
expand	bool	false	Enables this module to consume all left over space dynamically.

FORMAT REPLACEMENTS

{percent}: The current brightness in percent.

{percent_exp}: The current brightness in percent, adjusted with a power curve to better match perceived brightness.

{icon}: The icon from format-icons chosen according to {percent}.

{icon_exp}: The icon from format-icons chosen according to {percent_exp}.

EXAMPLE:

"backlight": {
	"device": "intel_backlight",
	"format": "{percent}% {icon}",
	"format-icons": ["", ""]
}

STYLE

• #backlight