On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 15:42:46 (-0400), Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: [ … ] > > > Sorry for the rant but it looks that either GNOME folks decided they > > > know it best what it should be for everyone or they are so busy with > > > frequent "nice" GUI changes and re-designs that there is no time > > > left for actual functionality. Fake controls and sliders doing > > > nothing?.. This is really climax. > > > > I have no patience for figuring out where graphical desktops hide (or > > document) their "user friendly" configuration tools, so I can > > sympathise. > > > > Something like the above procedure (maybe with some extra exploration > > of /sys/class) has always worked for me. > > > > Good luck. Hope this helps. > > Looks that I failed to deliver the point in my post. > > All 4 steps are correct. And I most certainly can happily change the > value in the /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness file to > whatever I want. The problem is it does not have any effect on the > actual/physical screen brightness. > > The change of the value in the > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness only results in the slider > in Brightness settings and other related GUI controls being carefully > and precisely re-positioned to reflect the new value in > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness. > > This is why there was a rant. Looks that like in GNOME moving the > sliders around is the only goal. Well, that's been achieved. Greetings > to the devs. :-) Sorry for another one. :-)
Having had two good rants at Gnome, surely you now have to tell us whether moving the sliders changes the value in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness, regardless of any effect on the screen itself. Cheers, David.
