Dimmy - reduce brightness of inactive monitor

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Dimmy - reduce brightness of inactive monitor

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From the developer of Pixx, this simple program reduces screen brightness of the inactive monitor. It's listed as a way to improve focus, but I actually found it reduced screen brightness, not just darkening. Meaning running even on very subtle levels could save electricity over time. I barely noticed the change on "Overlay opacity" when set to 18.

Category: System - Display

Status: Not portable, writes to:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Vecode\Dimmy.exe_Url_nrjuig5n1puiui3x4ugd42mu4ybahru5\1.3.0.0\user.config

Requirements: Win7+, .NET framework 4.5
Instructions / How to Extract: Download, unzip, and run
Version tested: 1.3

Resources: RAM: 7 megs, Disk space: 0.2 megs

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Homepage:
https://apps.vecode.net/dimmy/

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Re: Dimmy - reduce brightness of inactive monitor

#2 Post by webfork »

An alternative to Dimmy from the NPS Image Editor developer.
Improve focus by blanking out unused screens. Dim screens to reduce eyestrain. Group screens together for one-touch operations affecting all screens in a group. Recover off-screen programs without turning on the physical display or stream parts of a screen to another. Cover parts of a screen to temporarily hide sensitive information or reduce OLED burn-in.
http://multiscreenblank.nookkin.com/
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Sy ... lank.shtml

Status: Untested

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