bin/Xsession: drop brightness_monitor

It does not work as it needs a notification daemon to be running when
the script is started, which is not true at that point in xsession.

This will be handled in the window manager instead.

3 files changed, 2 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/bin/brightness_monitor b/bin/brightness_monitor
deleted file mode 100755
index a8617e0..0000000
--- a/bin/brightness_monitor
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python3
-
-import notify2
-import os
-import subprocess
-import sys
-
-if len(sys.argv) < 2:
-    sys.stdout.write('Usage: %s /sys/.../<backlight dir>/\n')
-    sys.exit(0)
-
-path = sys.argv[1]
-
-with open(os.path.join(path, 'max_brightness'), 'r') as f:
-    brightness_max = float(f.read().strip())
-
-notify2.init(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
-
-notification = notify2.Notification('Brightness')
-
-inotify_cmd = ['inotifywait', '--monitor', '--event=close_write',
-               os.path.join(path, 'brightness')]
-
-child = subprocess.Popen(inotify_cmd, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, bufsize = 0)
-
-while True:
-    # wait for updates
-    child.stdout.read(4096)
-    if child.poll() is not None:
-        notification.message = 'inotify monitor has terminated'
-        notification.set_urgency(notify2.URGENCY_CRITICAL)
-        notification.show()
-        sys.stderr.write(notification.message + '\n')
-        break
-
-    with open(os.path.join(path, 'brightness'), 'r') as f:
-        brightness = float(f.read().strip())
-
-    notification.message = '%d%%' % (100 * brightness / brightness_max)
-    notification.show()
diff --git a/desktop.conf.yaml b/desktop.conf.yaml
index 1305680..234dd73 100644
--- a/desktop.conf.yaml
+++ b/desktop.conf.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 - link:
     ~/.config/mpv/config: dotfiles/mpv
     ~/.config/mpv/scripts/xscreensaver.lua: mpv/xscreensaver.lua
-    ~/.local/bin/brightness_monitor:  bin/brightness_monitor
     ~/.local/bin/random_wallpaper:    bin/random_wallpaper
     ~/.local/bin/randr_output_toggle: bin/randr_output_toggle
     ~/.local/bin/ssh_sk_add:    bin/ssh_sk_add
@@ -19,3 +18,5 @@
     ~/.xscreensaver: dotfiles/xscreensaver
     ~/.Xresources: dotfiles/Xresources
     ~/.Xsession:     dotfiles/Xsession
+
+- clean: [~/.local/bin/brightness_monitor]
diff --git a/dotfiles/Xsession b/dotfiles/Xsession
index 7ad3423..6ac29a2 100644
--- a/dotfiles/Xsession
+++ b/dotfiles/Xsession
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ run_if_exists parcellite
 udev_match --subsystem=hidraw --match=ACTION=remove --match=ID_FIDO_TOKEN=1 ssh_sk_clean &
 udev_match --subsystem=hidraw --match=ACTION=add    --match=ID_FIDO_TOKEN=1 ssh_sk_add &
 
-# show notifications on brightness changes
-for d in /sys/class/backlight/*; do
-    brightness_monitor "$d" &
-done
-
 # source the machine-local configuration
 [ -r "$HOME/.config/Xsession_local" ] && . "$HOME/.config/Xsession_local"