Auto display dimming shows brightness meter popup

[Mark]

Since I upgraded to the beta, when my display auto dims due to inactivity, the pop-up brightness meter displays as if i was dimming it manually with the keypress. It should only do this if I'm actually pressing the key.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: konqueror (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 4 00:40:54 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-03 (153 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde-baseapps
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-02 (1 days ago)

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Marking this as also affecting me but will endeavour to either link to or create a KDE bug report.

[Mnd999-4 (mnd999-4)]

Since I upgraded to the Kubuntu beta, when my display auto dims due to inactivity, the pop-up brightness meter displays as if i was dimming it manually with the keypress. It should only do this if I'm actually pressing the key.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 4 00:40:54 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-03 (153 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:
When the screen auto dims due to inactivity the brightness meter appears

Expected Results:
It should not appear.

[Mark (mnd999)]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325643

[Mnd999-4 (mnd999-4)]

Laptop in question is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Also seeing this problem on a Samsung R720 with ATI HD4000 series graphics

[Kde-s (kde-s)]

I see this too, on a Thinkpad X60 (Kubuntu Saucy, KDE 4.11.2
It happens all the time:
  - when the screensaver dims due to inactivity
  - when I wake the machine from screen-blank.

(I think I've also seen this on my desktop machine, which flashes the notification very fast, as if it *would* dim the screen, but actually, the screen brightness isn't changing).

Please fix this: it may be a trivial bug, but it's really quite distracting, especially on resume.

Thanks very much

[Mnd999-4 (mnd999-4)]

Also, when the brightness adjustment keys are used on my X1 Carbon, the meter does not appear.

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 264485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Morten Lind (morten-lind)]

I confirm this inconvenient and unavoidable behaviour. I love KDE- and KDE application- developers for only adding nice-to-have features, if they can be suppressed by the user. However, this brightness-OSD from hell is not an example to follow :-)

[Martin Tamashiro (martintama)]

I confirm this also in Linux Mint 16 KDE 64 bit Edition. (KDE 4.11.2). Asus UL80VT.

[Martin Tamashiro (martintama)]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

[Holy-t (holy-t)]

This is particularly problematic if one is giving a LibreOffice presentation in front of a large audience.

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

If LibreOffice doesn't request screen saver inhibition during a presentation, please report it there.

[Holy-t (holy-t)]

Thanks, Christoph. Done: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80729

[8p-k26-gj (8p-k26-gj)]

This has been fixed for Plasma 5 where the OSD will only ever show up if the user manually touched the brightness, never if the system automatically does it.

[Holy-t (holy-t)]

Very nice, thanks so much!

[Cfeck (cfeck)]

*** Bug 342540 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***