Display settings window appears when adjusting screen brightness (fglrx driver)

[Dave H]

Clean install of Xubuntu 14.04 on a HP ENVY6 1006sa . When I adjust the screen brightness up or down, for each button press a display settings window appears. Also for any screen brightness change like under power saving a display settings window appears.

03/06/14: I should add this is with the AMD fglrx graphics driver installed. I did a 2nd clean install on 25/05/14 and problem does not occur with the Xubuntu xserver-xorg-video-ati video driver. So this is the work around. I prefer the fglrx driver as it is far more power efficient, 8watts compared with 10watts.

screen dump:
http://divnut.com/Xubuntu/screenshot_xfce_Display.png

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xfce4-settings 4.11.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue May 13 22:00:55 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xfce4-display-settings
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-06 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: xfce4-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Kyle Utecht (knutecht)]

I have the same issue on an Acer Aspire V5 552 8404 with xubuntu 14.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pasi Lallinaho (knome)]

There is a potential workaround on the duplicate bug 1306959;
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/+bug/1306959/comments/1