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Messed up brightness keys handling
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-power-manager
Component:
General

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Description exprosic 2020-03-30 11:40:54 CEST
Symptom
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when "Handle display brightness keys" is turned on:
1. press brightness-up: nothing happens
2. press brightness-down: brightness decreased

when "Handle display brightness keys" is turned off:
3. press brightness-up: nothing happens
4. press brightness-down: a notification pops up showing the current brightness level, which is not decreased

brightness-up/-down is CURRENTLY not in the custom key bindings.

Background
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This happens after a whole bunch of pacman updates, including the ones of kernel and of manjaro.

Before the update, I used to turn off the "Handle display brightness keys" and to bind the brightness-up/-down keys, as well as the ones with Shift+, to custom commands of "xbacklight" for finer control.

After the update, the (shift+)brightness-up still works as usual, but (shift+)brightness-down no longer adjusts the brightness level. It only gives a notification showing the current brightness level, as the symptom (4) described before.

Then I removed all the custom key bindings of (shift+)brightness-up/down but the problem get reversed (brightness-up does nothing and brightness-down works) which indicates another layer of messing up instead of reduction of problems, and hence the bug report.
Comment 1 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2020-05-27 01:30:20 CEST
It seems several things are flawed there, but it doesn't seem to be xfpm's fault - at least not completely.

So you seem to do/try 3 things:
- use xfpm (fails partly?)
- use kernel directly (fails partly?)
- use xbacklight (fails partly?)

I'm not sure if this problem can be properly attributed to xfpm...
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-27 01:48:58 CEST
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Bug #16609

Reported by:
exprosic
Reported on: 2020-03-30
Last modified on: 2020-05-27

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Assignee:
Ali Abdallah
CC List:
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