XCFE how do you set screen brightness? - solved

[AZgl1800]

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%

[Pjotr]

Please post the outcome of inxi -Fxz.

[Pierre]

does the Keyboard based keys for screen_brightness still work ?
- is that setting kept, when you reboot the machine ?.

[AZgl1800]

does the Keyboard based keys for screen_brightness still work ?
- is that setting kept, when you reboot the machine ?.

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.

[thx-1138]

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and now the screen is at 20% and still very bright for me, but whew! what a relief from 100%....................

...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

[AZgl1800]

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and now the screen is at 20% and still very bright for me, but whew! what a relief from 100%....................

...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

looked at that, nice to have on hand.

will order it up, tnx.

[mint4all]

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.