Is a brightness control widget available?

Question

Is it possible to place a slider or some other GUI component on the desktop / Notification Panel on Ubuntu 12.04 to control the screen brightness?

It's a little annoying to constantly have to go to the system settings to turn the brightness down.

Anything is possible. Are you asking for someone to write a widget that does that?
I'm asking if there is a way to control the brightness from the panel or desktop like there was in the old gnome. It's not fun to have to dig through system settings everytime you need to change the brightness.
inadition... the HomePage: launchpad.net/~indicator-brightness/+archive/ppa more info and configurations: codevanrohde.nl/wordpress/?p=128

fossfreedom · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-10 22:38:30Z

up vote 2 down vote accepted

There is a brightness indicator app that looks like:

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And can be downloaded from here (although it has 11.04 and 11.10 versions, it is said to work with 12.04 also).

The indicator is written in python and the source-code can be found here.

edited May 10 '12 at 22:38

fossfreedom♦
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answered May 10 '12 at 22:23

desgua
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Good answer. Didn't work with my installation though. – csilk Nov 21 '12 at 22:24

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