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Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing Illumination(up/down)+option+shif...
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macos11
#3: Post edited
by
samcarter
·
2022-01-07T08:59:32Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Background story:
- I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing `Illumination(up/down)`+`option`+`shift`).
- To do this I'm currently trying to use [MTMR (My touchbar. My rules.)](https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR), which allows me to create my own buttons, which then can run shell scripts, apple scripts, etc.
- ---
- For the screen brightness I can easily get my desired behaviour by this apple script:
- ```
tell application \"System Events\" to key code 107 using {option down, shift down}- ```
- However for the illumination key, there does not seem to be a key code which I can use in the apple script. Is there any other way to change the keyboard illumination programmatically?
- *(If possible, I would like to use open source tools and avoid commercial software like BetterTouchTools)*
- Background story:
- I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing `Illumination(up/down)`+`option`+`shift`).
- To do this I'm currently trying to use [MTMR (My touchbar. My rules.)](https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR), which allows me to create my own buttons, which then can run shell scripts, apple scripts, etc.
- ---
- For the screen brightness I can easily get my desired behaviour by this apple script:
- ```
- tell application "System Events" to key code 107 using {option down, shift down}
- ```
- However for the illumination key, there does not seem to be a key code which I can use in the apple script. Is there any other way to change the keyboard illumination programmatically?
- *(If possible, I would like to use open source tools and avoid commercial software like BetterTouchTools)*
#2: Post edited
by
samcarter
·
2022-01-06T19:46:26Z (almost 3 years ago)
#1: Initial revision
by
samcarter
·
2022-01-06T19:31:53Z (almost 3 years ago)
Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps
Background story:
I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing `Illumination(up/down)`+`option`+`shift`).
To do this I'm currently trying to use [MTMR (My touchbar. My rules.)](https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR), which allows me to create my own buttons, which then can run shell scripts, apple scripts, etc.
---
For the screen brightness I can easily get my desired behaviour by this apple script:
```
tell application \"System Events\" to key code 107 using {option down, shift down}
```
However for the illumination key, there does not seem to be a key code which I can use in the apple script. Is there any other way to change the keyboard illumination programmatically?
*(If possible, I would like to use open source tools and avoid commercial software like BetterTouchTools)*