Dimming a laptop's backlight when idle

[Aaron Stone]

Do the X people hang out on this mailing list? If not, where all do they
hang out? fd.o seemed to indicate that xdg was the center of action for
everything...

Aaron

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 05:45 -0800, Aaron Stone wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:20 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:39:04AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > > other laptops. Btw, I do wonder if the X.org server should provide this
> > > interface instead.
> > 
> > Possibly, though there's the problem that backlight control is generally 
> > manufacturer-specific rather than chipset-specific. X.org doesn't really 
> > have any infrastructure to deal with that right now, AFAIK.
> 
> I'd say it's model-specific; some manufacturers are consistent across
> models and some aren't. No different than chipset vendors.
> 
> Does anybody know if X.org 7.x is going to start using dbus and/or hal?
> That would change the infrastructure need into a need for well defined
> messages that some external agent can respond to in a hardware-specific
> way.
> 
> Aaron
> 
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