Battery - Control Screen brightness

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Mail Lists wrote:
>   Gnome - F11. When I unplug and go on battery - the screen dims. The
> power applet for non-battery has a slider for screen brightness. The
> battery tab only has a button to click to dim screen - i have that set
> to no.
> 
>   Yet - when I go on power the screen dims. Is there a slider somewhere
> to set screen brightness when on battery ? If not - is there a gnome
> registery setting ?
> 
> 
>    The hardware laptop brightness has no further effect - pressing it
> shows the brightness to full - clearly it is not. As soon as I plug
> power back in the screen gets brighter.
> 
>   Thanks for help.
> 
> gene/
> 
I am not at my laptop, so I can not check the power management
options/ But there is also an applet for Gnome that will set
brightness for most laptops. If you right-click on the top bar, and
click "Add to Panel...", you can add the "Brightness Applet" to
control screen brightness.

I will have to double check what the power savings configuration
program is called, and where it is, but I remember all kinds of
settings for things like dimming the screen when idle, setting
screen brightness, etc when on battery power.

Two things to keep in mind - the brightness settings do not work for
all laptops, and some BIOSs have settings that control how the
laptop behaves when it goes to battery power. If your laptop turns
out to be one that in not fully supported yes, then you will need to
file a bug report.

Mikkel
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