Xander Frangos

Congrats to the PowerToys team and contributors for shipping the closest thing to official support for DDC display brightness we've seen in Windows! It looks a lot like Twinkle Tray. 👀

@eneri74362847 @Niels9001 Twinkle Tray dev here. Happy to see this being worked on for PowerToys! DDC/CI and WMI brightness control apps have existed for a very long time. The more app choices, the better.

@Niels9001 Twinkle Tray already had all that for years

The PowerToys team is 🧑‍🍳🍳🔥. 🖥️

@arianevans Your praise is much appreciated! I made Twinkle Tray for myself for very similar reasons. It's funny how often people have to look into DDC/CI because existing options don't work for them. I'm glad TT has saved other devs from doing it themselves.

Conclusion: Twinkle Tray solved all of this. We tried multiple apps that didn't work reliably, or for our monitors, and finally I set out to build my own app to manage this. Researching DCC/CI specs is how I stumbled onto your app in Github. Again - cannot say Thank You enough! Semper gratus,

@xanderfrangos huge Thank-You for Windows 11 app TwinkleTray. Use it multiple times a day to adjust multi-monitor setups to highly-variable & /s/$random PNW weather & sunlight. Enables my aging eyes to see complex, data-rich displays (raw code, data, visualizations) for #AI dev and #cybersecurity AI/ML data-wrangling for urgent, time-sensitive investigations. ++General #Productivity. Problems & use-case specifics threaded: #ProductivityHacks

@XenoPanther @michalleptuch Do you mean Windows Insider canary builds? Regarding idle detection: there may be devices that are unintentionally resetting the timer, like controllers or wireless headphones. Also, media playback detection has been broken in Windows for me, but that's not a TT bug.

@michalleptuch @xanderfrangos Use it all the time. Though sadly the idle detection has stopped working for me. Also worth noting that on the latest canary builds, the app can sometimes cause a BSOD while updating video drivers

Do you know @xanderfrangos's app called Twinkle Tray? It's a very practical and helpful tool. It saves my eyes after spending hours working on my PC. Great design, good performance, and seamless system integration. 👌🏻 #WindowsDev #FluentDesign

@anthonysmendes It does work with a small amount of tinkering. See this issue from GitHub for more info: github.com/xanderfrangos/…

@xanderfrangos I have been using Crushee on Windows for some time now. Wanted to know if it works on MacOS too, it says that the software needs to be updated by the developer. Thanks!