On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:18 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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. > > > > 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 ? > > > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks for help. > > > > gene/ > > > I am not at my laptop, so I can not check the power management > options/ But there is also an applet for Gnome that will set > brightness for most laptops. If you right-click on the top bar, and > click "Add to Panel...", you can add the "Brightness Applet" to > control screen brightness. On my laptop the Brightness Applet and the hardwarw brightnewss control opperate in a non-cooperative way. The brightnessw can be adjusted by both but not in an additive fashion. > > I will have to double check what the power savings configuration > program is called, and where it is, but I remember all kinds of > settings for things like dimming the screen when idle, setting > screen brightness, etc when on battery power. > > Two things to keep in mind - the brightness settings do not work for > all laptops, and some BIOSs have settings that control how the > laptop behaves when it goes to battery power. If your laptop turns > out to be one that in not fully supported yes, then you will need to > file a bug report. > > Mikkel > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- ======================================================================= "Sometimes insanity is the only alternative" -- button at a Science Fiction convention. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
