UBUNTU 22.04 LTS - Changing brightness with xrandr doesn't work

In the CLI, xrandr --output MONITOR_NAME --brightness 0.7 seemingly "works" because no feedback is shown.

After using xrandr --verbose | grep Brightness, Brightness: 0.70 is shown as output but no visual changes occured.

I rebooted the system to check if this was needed but no. An other xrandr --verbose | grep Brightness later, Brightness: 0.0 is shown.

Could this be related to my monitor being 'WAYLAND0'? If so, is there a way to change that? I run a Linux Mate 20 on the side, and my very same monitor is displayed as 'VGA-1' there, and xrandr works fine.

Thank you!

Edit: I went to /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and removed the # from #WaylandEnable=false, which gave me back the 'VGA-1' output after a reboot.

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