Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery
Celejar, Mon Jul 13 2009 21:04:03 GMT+0200 (CEST) : On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:56 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? I don't know if this is helpful, but the package laptop-mode-tools is designed to invoke scripts upon various power events, such as a switch to and from battery, so if you can figure out some cli / script method to control the brightness, it should be simple to hook it in. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator you can try brightd: http://www.pberndt.com/Programme/Linux/brightd/index.html no deb packages available but a closed ITP (#419329). PJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery
On Mon,13.Jul.09, 21:05:13, Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? You need xfce4-power-manager-plugins. I have it installed, it adds a button that allows changing the brightness, but it still doesn't allow automatically reducing the brightness when on battery Sorry, I confused things. On my laptop I have a setting for this in the BIOS and it works without an OS (during POST and at the grub menu). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery
There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery
On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? You need xfce4-power-manager-plugins. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? You need xfce4-power-manager-plugins. Regards, Andrei I have it installed, it adds a button that allows changing the brightness, but it still doesn't allow automatically reducing the brightness when on battery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:56 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? I don't know if this is helpful, but the package laptop-mode-tools is designed to invoke scripts upon various power events, such as a switch to and from battery, so if you can figure out some cli / script method to control the brightness, it should be simple to hook it in. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
