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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #128452
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 128452

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 128452] Re: brightness control usability issues

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Tomasz Rzepecki <email address hidden> wrote:
> the dim-bright issue seems to be gone in hardy, not sure if it always
> works, but it seems that if it does work at all, it works properly.

It is definitely better than it was but not totally fixed.

When all the options are turned off in the Power control panel, I can
set the brightness using the function keys and it stays set.

If I set "dim display when idle" it also seems to work ok.

If I add a brightness applet things seem to work too.

If I set "reduce backlight brightness" on battery power it's not so
good: when unplugged, the brightness goes to almost the lowest
setting, which is too dim for me, and when re-plugging it stays
somewhat dimmer than it was before. Perhaps that's a separate bug, at
any rate it's a big improvement.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>