• fox
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Topic: adjusting display brightness in Statler

I recently purchased a Toshiba NB350 netbook and I have to decide by tomorrow whether to keep it or return it to the store. One of the big issues for me is that most of this netbook's function keys don't work in either CB Statler or UNE 10.04/10.10 beta.  I'm wondering whether there is a Gui tool that works in Statler to adjust display brightness in any laptop?  If not, is there a Terminal command for this?

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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

you could try xgamma, it is a terminal app that should already be installed by default. use it like so "xgamma gamma 1.0" adjust the 1.0 to brighten or darken the screen.
and oh yeah add the correct setting to your autostart.sh so the setting takes each time you boot.
like this.
xgamma gamma 1.0 &

big_smile

Last edited by slipshot (2010-09-16 18:04:54)

  • fox
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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

Thanks, slipshot; I'll try that when I get home.  Any idea about scale - what gamma is darkest and what is brightest?

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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

Another program you can try is xbacklight.

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  • fox
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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

Hmm, no luck yet.  With xgamma, all I get is the gamma of red, green and blue.  With xbacklight, I get "No outputs have backlight property".

Last edited by fox (2010-09-17 01:52:52)

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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

download

xfce4-volumed

it adds a notification thingy when you press your volume buttons, and for me atleast it automatically configured my keys

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  • fox
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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

Thanks for the suggestion, bolle, but it was already downloaded.  The volume keys work on this Toshiba, but invoking them doesn't do anything to the brightness keys.  I'm not very happy about this.  Those keys work in the Windows 7 installed in the NB305, but I still can't figure out how to adjust this in Linux.  There are even Toshiba utilities programs for this purpose that I downloaded, but they don't work either.  (Or if they do, I can't figure out how.)

Last edited by fox (2010-09-17 02:12:11)

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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

I know this conflicts with (or at least replicates most functions of) xfce4-power-manager, but have you tried adding gnome-power-manager?  Although I'd expect it to be part of the default UNE setup...

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  • fox
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Re: adjusting display brightness in Statler

I did try gnome-power-manager in UNE, and it had no setting for adjusting brightness; at least none that showed up on my Toshiba.  I'm now thinking that the Toshiba might be different because the display has backlighting.

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