Hi On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > systemd-backlight saves backlight levels on shutdown, and restores them > on startup. However, on some systems, backlight level 0 actually turns > the backlight *off*; this can potentially make the system unusable. > Complicating matters, on most systems, nothing pays attention to the > brightness adjustment keys in text mode. > > I'd suggest one or both of the following two changes, to avoid a painful > failure mode: > > - systemd-backlight should avoid saving/restoring a backlight level of > 0, and have a minimum backlight level. (Possibly overridable via > configuration, for people who *really* want to restore backlight level > 0.)
Never restoring val==0 seems fine to me. > - Something ought to listen to the brightness keys (and perhaps other > hotkeys) in pure text mode. systemd seems like a good place for such > a something to live. We cannot do that. It requires keymap-handling (as brightness keys are handled on the keysym, not keycode level) and this is exclusive territory of the compositor (or other foreground session controllers). Thanks David _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
