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On 2015-07-11T06:19:37+00:00 2460acc wrote:
When using FN key and arrows there are only 10 increments in the screen
brightness settings. The lowest one is a black screen and the next one
is already mid-bright for me. So basically it is not possible to set a
low screen brightness level.
Using xbacklight -dec 1 I have found there are 10 additional levels
between the two xfce4-power-manager zero nd first level. Please can you
let us access these.
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On 2015-07-11T07:58:05+00:00 2460acc wrote:
The following lines in common/xfpm-brightness.c seem to be the cause of
the course brightness steps.
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/tree/common/xfpm-
brightness.c
214 brightness->priv->step = max <= 20 ? 1 : max / 10;
366 brightness->priv->step = ret <= 20 ? 1 : ret / 10;
I wonder if you could change these numbers to 20 or 30 to allow finer
steps, e.g.
brightness->priv->step = max <= 30 ? 1 : max / 30;
I'm going to try and recompile but it looks a bit complicated for me.
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On 2015-07-18T17:45:48+00:00 2460acc wrote:
I just saw there is something called:
xfce4-settings-editor
Perhaps you could put the number of steps as a parameter in there so
users can do whatever they want.
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On 2016-01-24T19:10:34+00:00 Simon Steinbeiß wrote:
*** Bug 12299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2016-03-06T09:57:20+00:00 Timothy Lee wrote:
I've made an attempt to add this feature. The code can be found on the
brightness-step-count branch at: g...@github.com:timothytylee/xfce4
-power-manager.git
Please apply if the patch is acceptable.
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On 2016-03-07T06:30:29+00:00 Eric Koegel wrote:
Timothy, nice work. Now that you have a configuration option in the settings
UI, you can react to that in the power manager plugin as well. If we do it in
the backlight, you'll need to create a step_switch variable in the struct then,
install it in the class_init
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/tree/src/xfpm-backlight.c#n313
Use xfconf_g_property_bind to be notified of changes.
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/tree/src/xfpm-backlight.c#n368
Then you can call xfpm_brightness_set_step_count in the set_property function
and return the step-size in the get function.
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/tree/src/xfpm-backlight.c#n444
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On 2016-03-07T17:35:38+00:00 Eric Koegel wrote:
Ugh, that's what I get for commenting before coffee. For the panel
plugin you'll want to do something similar what the brightness_min_level
does in the panel-plugins/power-manager-plugin/power-manager-button.c
Hope I'm not too confusing.
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On 2016-03-08T00:20:06+00:00 Timothy Lee wrote:
I believe the panel plugin doesn't need to be updated, since changing
the number of keyboard controllable steps doesn't affect current
brightness -- it only affects future brightness adjustment made by
keyboard.
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On 2016-05-06T20:09:17+00:00 2460acc wrote:
I wonder if you could make the increments logarithmic? I.e. 1, 2, 4, 6,
16. etc. On my screen, with linear steps the gaps are too large at the
low levels (ie, the screen gets too bright too quickly) but then at the
high levels there are too many steps needed to get to full brightness.
In terms of steps, something like 0, 1, 2,
