~indicator-brightness/indicator-brightness/trunk

#!/usr/bin/python

# Put this script in one of your keyboard shortcuts to control indicator-brightness

#

# Copyright (C) 2013  Erwin Rohde

# Many thanks to Jan Simon for setting up and maintaining this indicator in launchpad.

# Dbus code heavily borrowed from https://github.com/majorsilence/pygtknotebook/tree/master/examples/dbus

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

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#

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import os

import gobject

import dbus

from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

import gtk

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Adjust screen brightness through dbus and indicator-brightness.')

parser.add_argument('--up', action='store_true', help="Brightness up")

parser.add_argument('--down', action='store_true', help="Brightness down")

args = parser.parse_args()

class DBusClient(object):

    def __init__(self):

        dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)

        self.bus = dbus.SessionBus()

        self.proxy = self.bus.get_object('com.ubuntu.indicator.brightness', '/adjust')

        self.control_interface = dbus.Interface(self.proxy, 'com.ubuntu.indicator.brightness')

        #print self.control_interface.Introspect(dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable')

        if args.up:

          self.control_interface.brightness_up()

        if args.down:

          self.control_interface.brightness_down()

if __name__ == "__main__":

    DBusClient()