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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Posted Jun 5, 2008 6:59 UTC (Thu) by pkern (subscriber, #32883)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops by jengelh
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

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.)


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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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