Dear all! According to the list of duplicates and bug heat this bug/feature request is very important.
As you know laptop market share is gigantic (see for example http://www.statista.com/statistics/276772/ultrabook-share-of-global-notebook-market-since-2011/ for stats). Also Ubuntu and Debian market share are increasing. So I can't believe why this usability fault exists in Ubuntu (and Debian) for years. It seems that guys from `systemd` understand the problem correctly (sooner or later - on 14 Aug 2013, see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/56f64d95763a799ba4475daf44d8e9f72a1bd474/src/backlight/backlight.c ), but `upstart` and `sysvinit` developers not. As you can remember I tried to fix the problem by myself - I created first version of an init script for saving and restoring backlight level (on 10 Dec 2012 - two years ago). It had one disadvantage - it operates only when laptop has one graphical adaptor and its name was hardcoded to the script (*acpi_video0* in my case). So today I present new version of a script - it can save and restore backlight levels of all graphical, adaptors, which are found in `/sys/class/backlight/*`. The init script with symlink are packed to archive (see attachment). If you have installed its previous version (see comment #15) - you can remove its files with commands: sudo rm /etc/rc?.d/?25backlight /etc/init.d/brightness then extract new version with commands: sudo tar -zxvf upstart_brightness.tar.gz -C / I hope my script will help somebody. Thanks for testing! ** Attachment added: "new version of backlight saving/restoring script" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/1270579/+attachment/4288756/+files/upstart_brightness.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (403075). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270579 Title: Ubuntu should have an upstart job for saving/restoring backlight level on laptops To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1270579/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
