[Gutsy]Backlight brightness dims after a minute of idle on battery, regardless of preferences.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
Hello,
I am running a fully-updated version of Gutsy on my HP DV6000 laptop (GM945 chipset). In gnome-power-
I checked in gconf-editor to ensure I had the settings correct, and indeed, they were. However, while reading the key description for idle_brightness, it says "Only valid when use_time_for_policy is true." I disabled use_time_
This is not an ideal solution, but at least there's a workaround. If you need any more information, please let me know.
Thank you,
Matt Brannock
I can confirm this bug on my Thinkpad T60.
This is really annoying because the brightness used when I'm on batteries is too low and I can hardly see anything. If I manually increase the brightness, it goes back automatically to the low value after more or less 2 minutes.