On 09/13/2009 11:36 AM, Mail Lists wrote: > > Gnome - F11. When I unplug and go on battery - the screen dims. The > power applet for non-battery has a slider for screen brightness. The > battery tab only has a button to click to dim screen - i have that set > to no. I see 2 check boxes: Reduce backlight brightness Dim display when idle I have both of them set. I also have the slider set to 20 minutes (Put display to sleep when inactive for) Also, my laptop has a couple of Fn buttons to control screen brightness. I looked at the ASUS scripts that came with my system, and none of them seem to control screen brightness, so I assume that they control the screen brightness directly? > Yet - when I go on power the screen dims. Is there a slider somewhere > to set screen brightness when on battery ? If not - is there a gnome > registery setting ? I too notice that the minute I go on battery, the whole screen dims. > The hardware laptop brightness has no further effect - pressing it > shows the brightness to full - clearly it is not. As soon as I plug > power back in the screen gets brighter. I see slightly different behaviour. When I unplug from power, the screen dims. I then use the buttons to return the screen brightness to where I want it. Then (some time later) while using the touchpad (mouse and clicks) the screen all of a sudden dims again, even more. If I then use the buttons to return it to where I want, just a short time after that the screen dims *again*. Makes me wonder what "idle" is looking at for activity, since power management has been overridden manually, yet insists on asserting itself again, and again, and again, .... > Thanks for help. Sorry, not helping, just commiserating.... > gene/ -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
