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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsThe Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsPosted Jun 3, 2008 20:47 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops
>openSUSE, like Fedora, thinks that it's smarter than the user and is entitled to readjust the backlight at any time. Somewhat. It automatically dims when going to battery power, which is what Windows (or Windows drivers) did for decades, and which I consider ok as a default. As far autodimming when on AC, hm, I think I noticed it on 10.3 too, but I do not care that much for even in maximum intensity, it cannot beat the sunlight (it's a matte display).
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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops Posted Jun 5, 2008 6:59 UTC (Thu) by pkern (subscriber, #32883) [Link] This is not the problem. gnome-power-manager somehow readjusts the backlight on battery power arbitrarily while the laptop is being used. I.e. I put it down and some minutes later it goes back to full backlight, all by itself. (Seen on Debian unstable.)
The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops Posted Jun 11, 2008 13:55 UTC (Wed) by pimlottc (guest, #44833) [Link] I've noticed this too, it's very frustrating. Gnome seems to see any minor state change as a instance to revert the screen brightness based on the default plugged/unplugged brightness. These seems to be absolutely no consideration for preserving the brightness level when it was manually adjusted by the user. I'm really glad the editor brought up this issue, hopefully it will draw some attention to improving it.
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