Reduce Brightness from command line on KaliLinux:
1. Go to the console and download the following package:
cd /root/Desktop wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcalib/xcalib_0.8.dfsg1-2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i xcalib_0.8.dfsg1-2_amd64.deb
2. Then enter the following command:
xcalib -co 40 -a //END
3. To reset
xcalib -c //END
Done.