zenbook-duo-2024-ux8406ma-linux

Features:

• brightness sync (any)
• battery limiter (any)
• touch/pen panels mapping (GNOME-specific, requires GNOME 46 or a backported Mutter patch)
• automatic bottom screen on/off (GNOME-specific)
• automatic rotation (GNOME-specific)

panel mapping

duo set-tablet-mapping will set necessary dconf settings, but for them to work you need a Mutter with a patch from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3556 and libwacom with this patch linuxwacom/libwacom#640 . Both are merged upstream, so you can just wait.

bottom screen toggle on GNOME

Make sure gnome-monitor-config, usbutils and inotify-tools are installed, the script relies on the gnome-monitor-config, lsusb and inotifywait commands from them.

Before the next steps, you may need or want to change the scaling settings or change the config at the top of duo based on the version of the duo that you have (1080p vs 3k display models)

For automatic screen management run duo watch-displays somewhere at the start of your GNOME session.

For manual screen management there are duo top, duo bottom, duo both and duo toggle (toggles between top and both) commands.

In addition there's also duo toggle-bottom-touch to toggle touch for the bottom screen, so you can draw with a pen while resting your hand on the screen.

automatic rotation

Make sure iio-sensor-proxy is installed, the script relies on monitor-sensor command from it. Once it's installed and you followed the steps above for dualscreen setup just run duo watch-rotation somewhere at the start of your GNOME session.

brightness sync

Brightness control requires root permissions. I prefer to have sudo with a password by default, so I use a hack to have a NOPASSWD sudo for /usr/bin/env which allows to execute any command. Line in /etc/sudoers looks like %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/env. On NixOS the relevant part of the config is this:

  security.sudo = {
    enable = true;
    extraRules = [{
      commands = [
        {
          command = "/usr/bin/env";
          options = [ "NOPASSWD" ];
        }
      ];
      groups = [ "wheel" ];
    }];
  };

Once the sudo setup is done you can either run duo sync-backlight to sync it once (you may want to bind it to some hotkey) or you can run duo watch-backlight at login and it will keep syncing your brightness from the top display to the bottom one.

For most linux distros there is an included systemd service file: brightness-sync.service that just needs /path/to/duo changed before moving it to /etc/systemd/system to enable brightness sync in the background.

battery limiter

Requires same sudo setup as for the brightness sync. Most likely you want to run duo bat-limit or duo bat-limit 75 (where 75 is your desired threshold percentage, 80 is used if omited) once at the start of your desktop session.

Notes concerning usage on Fedora 40

The steps described above work on Fedora 40 with the following specific changes: Prerequisities: sudo dnf install lm_sensors gnome-monitor-config inotofy-tools Libwacom files elan-425a.tablet and elan-425b.tablet should be copied to /usr/share/libwacom For brightness sync to work properly, line 10 of the duo.sh should be modified to backlight=card1-eDP-2-backlight