Claudio Bräuer

Business Informatics B.Sc. & Systems Integrator

Multi-monitor setup on KDE combining HiDPI and non-HiDPI displays

Many users’ desktop setups are comprised of several displays with different sizes, pixel resolutions and therefore different pixel densities (dpi). Unfortunately, many applications are not aware of so called ‘HiDPI‘ displays – displays, that by far exceed the pixel density of 72 dpi that we all have come to love so much. The result is

Adaptive display brightness control based on ambient brightness using the Home Assistant REST API

After years of not further thinking about it, I recently became fed up with the fact that run-of-the-mill office monitors do not have a way of automatically adjusting their brightness based on their surroundings, like many laptop monitors can. But if you happen to already have your own local Home Assistant instance, there is a