On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:14:12AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> I'm also using intel graphics. I didn't touch anything on my laptop
> except upgrading X, and now this started misbehaving.

Huge typo, I meant 'upgrading E'. X was not upgraded. Nothing was
upgraded except E.

On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:58:32AM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> 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.
 
Found it, thank you. I'm ok enough with dpms turning the screen off
without any other fanciness.

> > 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.
 
It could be an X bug triggered by the dimming the E is doing. Now that I
turned that off, I'll hopefully be ok.

> > 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...
 
Well, I guess that's what happened anyway :) but I was easily able to
restore it after you pointed that out.

Thanks,
Marc
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