Colours on my keyboard

A few days ago I had to consider reinstalling Windows on my notebook. Instead I decided to switch to Linux Mint. I've been using Linux Mint in virtual machines for a few years and it worked very well for me. This is the first time I run Linux directly on the host. For development I keep a few Windows virtual machines. I'm very happy with it so far. Everything just worked without much ado, except one detail: The notebook comes with a backlit keyboard with configurable colours. Under Windows I got used to setting it to a dim white colour which works best for me. Since the default colour on boot is dark blue I was looking for a way to change it in Linux. Luckily, I've found a driver for it.

Big kudos to Steven Seeger (klystron) for his efforts!

I can enjoy my comfortable dim white colour again. Or play around; see below. ;-)

Happy holidays and a great year 2017 to everyone!

	#!/bin/bash
	BLACK=000
	BLUE=001
	RED=010
	MAGENTA=011
	GREEN=100
	AQUA=101
	YELLOW=110
	WHITE=111
	KBLED=/sys/devices/platform/clevo_wmi/kbled
	function setBrightness {
	echo $1 > $KBLED/brightness
	}
	function setColor {
	echo $1 > $KBLED/$2
	}
	function setColors {
	setColor $1 left
	setColor $1 middle
	setColor $1 right
	}
	function setColors2 {
	setColor $1 left
	setColor $2 middle
	setColor $3 right
	setBrightness $4
	}
	function test1 {
	while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do
	setColors $BLUE
	sleep 0.5s
	setColors $AQUA
	sleep 0.5s
	setColors $WHITE
	sleep 0.5s
	done
	}
	function test2 {
	local A=($BLACK $WHITE $BLACK $RED $BLACK $BLUE $BLACK $MAGENTA $BLACK $AQUA $BLACK $YELLOW $BLACK $GREEN)
	local L=0
	local M=1
	local R=2
	local B=10
	while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do
	while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do
	setColors2 ${A[$L]} ${A[$M]} ${A[$R]} $B
	sleep 0.1s
	((L++))
	if [ $L -eq ${#A[@]} ]; then
	L=0
	fi
	M=$(($L+1))
	if [ $M -eq ${#A[@]} ]; then
	M=0
	fi
	R=$((M+1))
	if [ $R -eq ${#A[@]} ]; then
	R=0
	fi
	done
	done
	}
	test2

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