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Hello, I have an Asus Q400A laptop with Mint 14 Cinnamon installed. Initially, the brightness keys (fn+f5/f6) wasn't working. I managed to get it working, but the brightness popup meter doesn't show up. [The volume and all other popups seem to appear, however.] Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make the brightness popup appear? Thank you!

socrates_johnson wrote:Hello, I have an Asus Q400A laptop with Mint 14 Cinnamon installed. Initially, the brightness keys (fn+f5/f6) wasn't working. I managed to get it working, but the brightness popup meter doesn't show up. [The volume and all other popups seem to appear, however.] Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make the brightness popup appear? Thank you!

Hi! I have a asus A55A ... the FN keys for brightness does not work! the sounds and others fn keys works...

Could you please share how you make it work?

Thanks!

Hello, I'm sorry for not responding sooner. I tried several things to get the brightness function keys working, and I apologize because am not positive I remember which one worked, but I think this method ended up working for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12440245

I'm not a Linux pro or anything so be careful and good luck!

socrates_johnson wrote:Hello, I'm sorry for not responding sooner. I tried several things to get the brightness function keys working, and I apologize because am not positive I remember which one worked, but I think this method ended up working for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12440245

I'm not a Linux pro or anything so be careful and good luck!

Hi! Thanks a lot, it worked with the link above, but with this change I have a little bug here, after reboot the browser chromium starts with a very small size and cannot be maximized (just on first open) , it stay like that, i have to close it and open again then it restore to normal size.

like that: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0dy33kc1f54slt/screen.png

Do you have this same issue?

Thanks a lot for the fixing link.

hasson wrote:
Hi! Thanks a lot, it worked with the link above, but with this change I have a little bug here, after reboot the browser chromium starts with a very small size and cannot be maximized (just on first open) , it stay like that, i have to close it and open again then it restore to normal size.

like that: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0dy33kc1f54slt/screen.png

Do you have this same issue?

Thanks a lot for the fixing link.

You're welcome. Unfortunately, I'm not sure about the strange issue with chromium. I use chrome, but have not noticed any issues since I got the brightness controls working.

socrates_johnson wrote:
You're welcome. Unfortunately, I'm not sure about the strange issue with chromium. I use chrome, but have not noticed any issues since I got the brightness controls working.

Hi

I Just fixed it using the command -start-maximized on shortcut =)

Thaks a lot for your help!