Public bug reported: In Dell or ThinkPad notebooks with keyboard backlight, the keybindings to control the keyboard backlight don't emit any event to the userland, about the state change, nor they request userland to change it (as it happens in other models which emits KEY_KBDILLUM{UP,DOWN,TOGGLE} events), this causes unity/gnome-settings daemon not to restore the proper backlight after idle.
Steps to reproduce: 0) ensure your keyboard backlight is on, and gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.UPower \ --object-path /org/freedesktop/UPower/KbdBacklight \ --method org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight.GetBrightness returns a value != from 0. If not, just call the SetBrightness method with a positive value, to turn on the backlight. Now turn off the keyboard backlight (or set it to another level) using the laptop keys, and run: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 1 to make things easier to test. 2) Wait one second and the screensaver should start. Wait the screen to be turned off. If you just changed the brightness level at the step above, once the screen is turned off, also the keyboard backlight should be turned off too. 3) Now press a key or move the mouse. Expected behavior: 4) The keyboard backlight should be set back to the previous level (so it should stay off or go back to the level you set before the idle timeout happened). Actual behavior: 5) The backlight is set to the level it had at point 0). ** Affects: dell-sputnik Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: upower Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Status: New ** Affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) Status: New ** Affects: upower (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) Status: New ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #95457 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95457 ** Also affects: upower via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95457 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: upower (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: upower (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: upower (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) ** Changed in: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) ** Summary changed: - Keyboard backlight isn't properly reset after idle on systems with hardwired configuration + Keyboard backlight isn't properly restored after idle on systems with hardwired configuration -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583861 Title: Keyboard backlight isn't properly restored after idle on systems with hardwired configuration Status in Dell Sputnik: New Status in Upower: Unknown Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: New Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: New Status in upower package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In Dell or ThinkPad notebooks with keyboard backlight, the keybindings to control the keyboard backlight don't emit any event to the userland, about the state change, nor they request userland to change it (as it happens in other models which emits KEY_KBDILLUM{UP,DOWN,TOGGLE} events), this causes unity/gnome-settings daemon not to restore the proper backlight after idle. Steps to reproduce: 0) ensure your keyboard backlight is on, and gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.UPower \ --object-path /org/freedesktop/UPower/KbdBacklight \ --method org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight.GetBrightness returns a value != from 0. If not, just call the SetBrightness method with a positive value, to turn on the backlight. Now turn off the keyboard backlight (or set it to another level) using the laptop keys, and run: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 1 to make things easier to test. 2) Wait one second and the screensaver should start. Wait the screen to be turned off. If you just changed the brightness level at the step above, once the screen is turned off, also the keyboard backlight should be turned off too. 3) Now press a key or move the mouse. Expected behavior: 4) The keyboard backlight should be set back to the previous level (so it should stay off or go back to the level you set before the idle timeout happened). Actual behavior: 5) The backlight is set to the level it had at point 0). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-sputnik/+bug/1583861/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp