laptop brightness panel

[Richard Hughes]

On 1 January 2011 10:19, Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> wrote:
> I see now that there is a support for keyboard backlights in upower,
> somethings few people cares about, is there is any plan to implement laptop
> brightness panel interface in upower so lot of people that losts their
> control after completely removing HAL can have this nice feature!

No, In an ideal world all display drivers would just implement the
xbacklight extension in XOrg, and gnome-power-manager can use that. In
the meantime, g-p-m ships a PolicyKit helper that pokes values in
/sys/class/backlight/* if X does not have any working backlight
devices.

Richard.