Screen brightness control with Magic Keyboard 🔆F1/🔆F2 keys

As AppleOSX does not support the changing of the screen brightness on HDMI/DP, i was struggling at the beginning of my NUC8i5BE build to find an appropriate way to use the original brightness control keyt on the magic keyboard.

This was the only solution i found. Seems working rock solid so far.
Not sure if this is helpful for you, but thought might be worth sharing.

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1. Get Quickshade (dev: questbeat) from the store

   Command line install for mas : mas install 931571202

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1. Get any kind of key remapping tool, i use BetterTouchTool

   Command line install for brew : brew install --cask bettertouchtool

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1. Go into settings of quickshade and add a new shortcut for "Turn up brightness" and for "Turn down brightness". Used some key combinations that i not really use.

   Well never used before like ever so it'll be fine.

"Turn up brightness" ^Ó

"Turn down brightness" ^Ü

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1. Fire up BetterTouchTool, go to Keyboard

   " + Add New Shortcut or Key Sequence", in Shortcut, press 🔆F1 >>> Trigger Other Keyboard Shortcut : Use the one you assigned in Quickshade. ^Ü in my example, repeat for the brightness up.

   " + Add New Shortcut or Key Sequence", in Shortcut, press 🔆F2 >>> Trigger Other Keyboard Shortcut : Use the one you assigned in Quickshade. ^Ó in my example.

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1. Enjoy the working keys.