Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

gpm meddles with brightness settings

Bug #140916 reported by Paul Sladen
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

If 'gnome-power-manager' thinks that the brightness should be set to 100% (or any other value) and you adjust it manually using keyboard commands (such as Fn-Home and Fn-End on Thinkpads) then the newly selected brightness will stay.

After some while (1-5minutes), 'gnome-power-manager' will slide the brightness to the value it has stored.

On a bright/dark day this is really annoying.

Ideally gnome-power-manager should only adjust the backlight brightness:

  (a) on boot and resume.
  (b) to swap between chosen states on transition from battery <-> AC power.

At all other times, gnome-power-manager should leave the brightness settings as the user adjusted it.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Are you saying that the "Dim display when idle" check box in the Power Management Preferences should not be checked by default? Do you think it should be this way for both the "On AC Power" profile and the "On Battery Power" profile? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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