Re: [e-users] Screen brightness

2017-01-02 Thread Peter Flynn
On 23/12/16 23:07, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > The "Backlight" module provides a control [...] That's already there, and already set to 100% The problem seems to be that the driver is faulty: if I reboot into Windows 7 (it's a dual-boot install), then I can make the screen brighter without trouble.

Re: [e-users] Screen brightness

2016-12-23 Thread Massimo Maiurana
The "Backlight" module provides a control that you can put in a shelf, when you click on it it shows a cursor to dim/undim the screen. You can find it under "Utilities" in the list of modules. Alternatively you can set a keybinding to the actions "Backlight up" and "Backlight down" and tune the st

[e-users] Screen brightness

2016-12-23 Thread Peter Flynn
I'm running e17 under Ubuntu 15.10 on a Dell Latitude D810. The keyboard provides Fn up-arrow and Fn down-arrow to control screen brightness, but they only provide one step, about a 5% change in intensity up or down. I have tried but failed to find anywhere in the e menus a setting or widget to m

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys (and edge bindings)

2015-05-21 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 21 May 2015 15:03:55 -0400 Conrad Hill-Knight said: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Carsten Haitzler > wrote: > > odd. it should be 0 to 1. 1 == max, 0 == of. so 0.1 == go up 10%, -0.1 == go > > down 10%. > > And it used to work with the defaults. But it works now with the step > si

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys (and edge bindings)

2015-05-21 Thread Conrad Hill-Knight
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > odd. it should be 0 to 1. 1 == max, 0 == of. so 0.1 == go up 10%, -0.1 == go > down 10%. And it used to work with the defaults. But it works now with the step size set to 10, and seems to be interpreting that as a percentage. It's not th

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys (and edge bindings)

2015-05-20 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 20 May 2015 12:43:31 +0200 Massimo Maiurana said: > Conrad Hill-Knight ha scritto il 20/05/2015 alle 03:17: > > > That did it! It was set to +/-0.1. I'm guessing it's supposed to be a > > percentage? > > If I'm not wrong it's not a percentage, it's a step as defined by the > driver. Loo

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys (and edge bindings)

2015-05-20 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 19 May 2015 21:17:53 -0400 Conrad Hill-Knight said: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Carsten Haitzler > wrote: > > that'd be e - the default keybindings. check them. that SHOULD be adjusting > > monitor brightness up and down. the action has a value for the step. try > > raising that v

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys (and edge bindings)

2015-05-20 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Conrad Hill-Knight ha scritto il 20/05/2015 alle 03:17: > That did it! It was set to +/-0.1. I'm guessing it's supposed to be a > percentage? If I'm not wrong it's not a percentage, it's a step as defined by the driver. Looking at /sys/class/backlight//max_brightness you shoould find what is the

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys (and edge bindings)

2015-05-19 Thread Conrad Hill-Knight
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > that'd be e - the default keybindings. check them. that SHOULD be adjusting > monitor brightness up and down. the action has a value for the step. try > raising that value? That did it! It was set to +/-0.1. I'm guessing it's supposed to

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys

2015-05-19 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 19 May 2015 15:23:51 -0400 Conrad Hill-Knight said: > Just a quick follow-up... I ran a naked X session (no window manager, > just an xterm), and this time xev shows there are keycodes detected > when i press the brightness buttons. As expected, they're off by 8 > from the terminal's keyc

Re: [e-users] screen brightness keys

2015-05-19 Thread Conrad Hill-Knight
Just a quick follow-up... I ran a naked X session (no window manager, just an xterm), and this time xev shows there are keycodes detected when i press the brightness buttons. As expected, they're off by 8 from the terminal's keycodes. And xmodmap shows that these keycodes are what they're supposed

[e-users] screen brightness keys

2015-05-19 Thread Conrad Hill-Knight
I'm not sure if this is an Enlightenment-specific question, but E is where i'm running into this problem :) The backlight module in the shelf i have on the screen works flawlessly. It even remembers what the brightness level was and restores it when i log in to E. The problem is that the keys on m