On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:59:27PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > 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.
Likewise. > > - 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). Perhaps this will get fixed when we switch from kernel VTs to a userspace-managed console, then. - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
