On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:18:41 -0700 Ross Vandegrift <[email protected]> said:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:43:59PM +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:30:04 -0700 Ross Vandegrift <[email protected]> said: > > > sddm, and lxdm all returned to a black screen with no backlight control. > > > Same with startx and exiting to a text console. > > > > Then turn the checkbox off. The point of fading to/from off is to have a > > glitch-free experience. All my boxes actually now do. They are black while > > booting, fade into an e splash screen, I jus stay in E until I'm done then > > power off the machine which is a fade to black and then off. No console > > messages scrolling by or blinking cursors ... slick and clean. > > > > If i want to have a mixed up environment and have that text console after or > > whatever - there is a checkbox there to swizzle. Reality is that the whole > > console ecosystem needs to move forward. For now gdm is doing it right. KDE, > > GNOME, E are doing it right by controlling backlight during a login session. > > The ecosystem moves forward when it's pushed. This is a push. > > Yea, this makes sense to me. It may be a surprising user experience to many > folks - for whatever reason, E seems to attract people who still want to run > startx manually. i want to kill the text console. i just don't see the point. it's so limited. it's no longer even ext mode. it's graphics mode with the kernel emulating text on it for you. a graphical session with a fullscreen terminology gives the same effect/result just with a lot of added bonuses. hell terminology runs in a vt (but won't control backlight due to that needing infra that needs root access). at some point the kernel probably needs to wire up backlight to kms. also ddc controls probably need to be wired up with that too. you know e can control monitor backlights just like it controls your laptop internal screen backlight? you can adjust brightness of each external monitor individually and e will also... fade these in and out to/from min to max etc. alongside your laptop internal backlight... :) it's lout of the box if you have libddcutil installed. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
