Comment 39 for bug 1739805

(In reply to haarp from comment #34)
> Where are the settings to be found? I can't find anything new in the Power
> Manager's setting screen. I ended up manually adding them with the settings
> editor.

With the patch applied, on the General tab of Xfce Power Manager, there should be a "Brightness step count" field and an "Exponential" checkbox next to it.

> The exponential feature is really comfortable to use. However there's one
> caveat. It starts too slow, so that the first 3 of 10 steps have pretty much
> no effect at all. Is there a way to weigh it a little more towards the later
> steps?

I believe the effect of exponential steps is very much dependent on the characteristics of the LCD backlight. For my last two laptops, there are very visible differences between every step on the scale. Perhaps you can try reducing the number of steps to 6?

Enlarging the step sizes towards the lower end complicates the maths quite a bit, and may not suit everyone.