How does Xorg deal with the brightness control keys?

Marty Jack martyj19 at comcast.net
Sat Oct 1 05:42:05 PDT 2011



On 09/30/2011 07:40 PM, Georgiy Treyvus wrote:
> In attempting to help fix a possible bug in Openbox I ran into a few questions. Rather awkward situation. Don't know how to explain. Here's the backstory. A bug report is worth 1000 words:
> https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5234
> 
> Granted at this point I'm not sure whether the problem lies with Xorg or Openbox or even both but perhaps someone can help me shed some light on the subject.
> 
> Also in CLI only installs of Debian and Arch the brightness control keys work. Could the problem be on a deeper system level and not Xorg and Openbox?
> 
> Just trying to get to the bottom of this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Dana's answer in reply 2 is correct.  You must look at what else is running on your system.  At this moment you have no evidence whatsoever that Xorg or Openbox are misoperating.



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