in Cinnamon, you click on the Battery Icon
in xcfe, I can't find any way to do that at all....
my eyes are extremely light sensitive since I had cataract lense implants installed.
( a blessing, I was blind before )
but, on my backup laptop, with a bare minimum of resources, XCFE is the only version it can handle.
and I need to reduce the screen brightness to 30%
XCFE how do you set screen brightness? - solved
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Re: XCFE how do you set screen brightness?
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Re: XCFE how do you set screen brightness?
does the Keyboard based keys for screen_brightness still work ?
- is that setting kept, when you reboot the machine ?.
- is that setting kept, when you reboot the machine ?.
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Re: XCFE how do you set screen brightness?
On my other laptop, the answer is no to Kybd keys.
on this Acer Aspire, I just now noticed, by getting 2.5 power eyeglasses and a flashlight, there is an outline on the Left/right keys of the Screen brightness symbols.
and now the screen is at 20% and still very bright for me, but whew! what a relief from 100%
solved thanks.
am curious why xcfe does not keep the same thought as to the Battery Icon, that makes it so easy, no kybd shortcuts to remember.
Re: XCFE how do you set screen brightness?
...AZgl1500, maybe you'd be interested is something like this, they're also pretty inexpensive...
(can also find them at any decent photography equipment shop):
https://www.amazon.com/Gel-Sheet-299-Ne ... B0089R864I
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Re: XCFE how do you set screen brightness?
looked at that, nice to have on hand.thx-1138 wrote: ⤴Sat Jul 07, 2018 11:29 am...AZgl1500, maybe you'd be interested is something like this, they're also pretty inexpensive...
(can also find them at any decent photography equipment shop):
https://www.amazon.com/Gel-Sheet-299-Ne ... B0089R864I
will order it up, tnx.
Re: XCFE how do you set screen brightness? - solved
Greetings! I've come across a (possibly) generic solution to managing a laptop's screen brightness: the "xbrightness" utility discussed @ https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... fce-ubuntu ...
So I checked my 12yo Toshiba laptop freshly minted with LM19-XFCE (32bit), and found that it wasn't installed by default. Then i installed it via synaptic, and tested it. It works like a charm for me, and overcomes my problem with my laptop's non-functioning Fn-keys This makes up for xfce's lack of a brightness control -- imho, the power manager's brightness reduction during idle times isn't enough.
So I checked my 12yo Toshiba laptop freshly minted with LM19-XFCE (32bit), and found that it wasn't installed by default. Then i installed it via synaptic, and tested it. It works like a charm for me, and overcomes my problem with my laptop's non-functioning Fn-keys This makes up for xfce's lack of a brightness control -- imho, the power manager's brightness reduction during idle times isn't enough.