Dimland is a simple screen dimmer for Wayland. It overlays a transparent black layer on all display outputs, enabling additional brightness reduction, even when the monitor backlight is to 0%. It also includes a feature for drawing opaque screen corners, mimicking a rounded display.
The preferred way to install dimland is using the Nix package manager.
nix profile install github:keifufu/dimland
NixOS
This assumes you use home manager with flakes.
- Add
github:keifufu/dimland
to your inputs - Import
inputs.dimland.homeManagerModules.dimland
programs.dimland = {
enable = true;
# If you want to start dimland on startup
service = {
enable = true;
alpha = 0;
radius = 20;
# Specify target to start after
after = "hyprland-started.path";
};
};
# Assuming you use Hyprland, start after its socket exists
systemd.user.paths.hyprland-started = {
Unit.Description = "Watch for Hyprland to start";
Path.PathExists = "%t/hypr";
Install.WantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
};
Important
- Ensure you have Rust installed.
- The system libraries
libxkbcommon
andlibwayland
are required.
cargo build --release
The resulting binary will be in ./target/release/dimland
Usage: dimland [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
Commands:
stop Stops the program
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-a, --alpha <ALPHA> Transparency level (0.0 transparent, 1.0 opaque, default 0.5, max 0.9)
--allow-opaque Allow alpha to go beyond 0.9
-r, --radius <RADIUS> Corner radius (default 0)
-o, --output <OUTPUT> Output to control (ex. DP-1)
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version