You can run systemctl start acpid.service. Change start to enable if you want to run it on boot. Regards, Z On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 21:30 -0400, Michael Nawrocki wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the > brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. Previously, I had entered the > following in my /etc/acpi/handler.sh to handle the acpi events generated > when those keys were pressed: > > video/brightnessdown) > echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) -1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness > ;; > > video/brightnessup) > echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) +1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness > ;; > > However, as I am working on migrating to systemd, acpid no longer runs > and hence does not handle these events. How can I write a similar > handler into systemd? > > Thanks, > > Mike >