How do you reset the display settings, like brightness, without rebooting?

Pulseczar

1/6/24, 6:41 PM

The common situation is this: You run a game and the game changes your display's brightness while in the game. The game then crashes or freezes, causing it to not exit properly, causing it to not reset your display settings. You are left with the undesired brightness changes on the desktop. Starting the game again and exiting it, without crashing, might sometimes reset your display, but definitely sometimes won't.

How do you reset your display settings, as though you rebooted, without rebooting?

This is especially important if I'm trying to debug the crash, and the problem keeps occurring; I don't want to have to reboot every time the game/program crashes.

My About page says this is my graphics provider: AMD® Hainan / Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)

The best answer will cover how to do this for any/all common graphics driver(s).

0 + 0

gnome

display

xorg

brightness

20.04

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: How do you reset the display settings, like brightness, without rebooting?

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.