Brightside project is edge flipping and active corners for your Gnome desktop.
Brightside is a tool to add reactivity to the corners and edges of your Gnome desktop.
Brightside provides 'edge flipping' to allow you to switch to the adjacent workspace simply by pressing your mouse against the edge of the screen.
Brightside also allows you to assign configurable actions to occur while you rest the mouse in a corner of the screen.
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Here are some key features of "Brightside":
· Fade out volume
· Prevent screensaver starting
· Start screensaver and lock screen
· Enter DPMS standby mode
· Enter DPMS suspend mode
· Enter DPMS off mode
· Dim laptop backlight
· Custom action
Requirements:
· Standard Gnome libraries