Apple Studio Display brightness adjust from Windows / Linux

October 16, 2023

The Apple Studio Display is desigend for macOS brightness controls. A Linux or Windows computer has the brightness locked at the last setting. If the Studio Display power is reset, the brightness defaults to maximum.

Small open-source programs allow Linux and Windows computers to adjust the brightness of the Apple Studio Display.

Windows

studio-brightness.exe, is a C++ program downloaded from the Releases, or the program can be built from source. The keyboard uses the HID interface to adjust the brightness of the Apple Studio Display from Windows.

Linux

Choose from either of C++ HID interface asdcontrol or Rust asdbctl to adjust the brightness of the Apple Studio Display from Linux.

macOS

The complement of the above program is the MonitorControl macOS program that allows control of Apple and non-Apple displays from macOS.