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KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Hi!

First of all I want to state here my best appreciation for the awesome distro that Main Edition and KDE CE are. I have not tried the other ones. Congratulations! :)

I've been using Linux Mint Daryna (Gnome) for some time now but I always had the curiosity to try KDE. I downloaded the KDE CE and tried it but one thing (just one! :P) doesn't work: the laptop screen brightness FN + F6 and F7. This happened also in Kubuntu 7.10 (arghhh distro).

Any suggestion of how to fix this?

PS: I really love the mint menu of Gnome and KDE!!! Keep it this way!
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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Just in case it's to do with the keys themselves, you might be able to set the brightness levels from the power management applet (in both Gnome and KDE).

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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Thanks. The keys are fine. Well, I'm not an experienced user with KDE but I'll try to find that power management feature. KDE is really messy in regard to some aspects..
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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Hi again. I have tried to solve this issue but with no success. Kpowersave doesn't seems to work..I click on it and nothing happens. I'm on the live cd..

Does anybody confirms this?

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No one?
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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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try starting kpowersave from the command line.
kdesu kpowersave
this may give us more info to go on.
or it may just work.

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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Boo, thank your for your reply.

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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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also look in the kde wiki as there is something there about kpowersaver.

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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Ok. It's done. I reduced the brightness. But now I have another problem. I've made all the updates pointed out by mintupdate and adept installer, including full upgrade. Now I get a green shadow behind "Internet", "office" and "utilities" in K menu. I also get a blue shadow behind the "settings". I only changed the icons but this had no interference, since this happens with every set of icons that I choose...

Any ideas?

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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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something might have been reset or added by the updates.
the shadow is just to add some separation to the groups/apps.

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Re: KDE CE and Toshiba screen brightness

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Is there any way to change this "shadows"?

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