On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:14:12 -0700 Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> said:
> Hi Raster, > Thanks for your answer. > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 04:33:59PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > when e suspends it'll "fade the screen" which also involves ramping > > brightness down. on resume it does the reverse. it fades from black to > > normal and fades brightness back up. this hasn't changed in years with e. i > > can't remember - intel drivers? if so then the xserver controls the > > brightness - e just asks it via xrandr to do it. this does work reliably > > for me on my laptops (multiple - all intel though). > > I'm also using intel graphics. I didn't touch anything on my laptop > except upgrading X, and now this started misbehaving. wait... you upgraded X and then backlight doesn't change correctly anymore... and enlighternment's code handling this hasn't changed in many many years... so guess where i think your bug is? :) > What should I turn off to get E not to change my blanking at all on > suspend? > Do I want to change ACPI bindings/suspend? under compositor settings in advanced there is "dont fade backlight". but then e wont dim your backlight on screensaver timeout etc. and your backlight will stay on etc. you seem to be working around a bug in xorg... not e. > > > - things come back ok sometimes, but then my mouse cursor totally > > > disappears over parts of the screen and re-appears within some > > > windows, while disappearing on the background again. > > > > e also will emit signals to the pointer object to suspend/resume itself too > > (the theme will zoom and fade the cursor when this happens). i added this > > more recently because of another laptop where there are no actual brightness > > Right, so this is definitely unreliable on my laptop. > How do I turn this off? you don't. well not in settings. you modify the theme. again - i am wondering if this is an xorg bug that is somehow dropping cursor changes from e during resume along with backlight change requests. > > i can't see your problem or reproduce it. though admittedly i'm on git > > master (efl and e), and i don';t remember seeing this as an issue. > > Not a big deal. I don't need that feature at all, so as long as I can > turn it off, I should be good. > > > your mixer should still be available... it has never been removed for me. > > make sure the mixer module is loaded... go double-check the shelf contents > > to see if the mixer gadget is there and added etc. ... > > You are correct on that one. I wrongly assumed the mixer was moved from > the gadget bar to the window border. > What happened was that the E upgrade disabled my mixer gadget for > unknown reasons. I had to find and re-install it. > All good on that front now, thank you. it should not have done that... unless it was going to totally deprecate the shelf and migrate all your settings to the gadget bar... > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet > cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP > 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
