Brightness And Volume Scroller

A plugin for Budgie HotCornersII to change screen brightness or volume.

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• Uses xdotool to send function keys.
• Uses evdev to read mouse events.

Features

• Changes screen brightness by scrolling mouse wheel.
• Changes volume by scrolling mouse wheel.
• Auto-closes when mouse leaves a corner.

Install

• I'm not a professional linux developer. I made this and it works on my Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Bionic.
• Install python3-evdev:

•  sudo apt install python3-evdev
  

• Download or clone this repository.
• Find your mouse event file by running:

• sudo cat /proc/bus/input/devices
  

• Change mouseEvent variable to your path of mouse event.
• Add this script path to Budgie HotCornersII

References

Ubuntu Budgie
XF86 keyboard symbols
xdotool