[Bug 884041] Re: Screen brightness not adjusted when switching from AC to battery

2012-11-09 Thread Danny Wood
What is irritating about this is the backlight on laptops is usually the highest power item. So on battery I want it to always be low power to maximise the battery life, I don't want it to continuously go bright when I touch my laptop as this consumes excess battery. As I can't have that my displ

[Bug 884041] Re: Screen brightness not adjusted when switching from AC to battery

2011-11-12 Thread Danny Wood
This is a rather annoying issue. Looking through all the power manager settings it seems they have removed the brightness_battery and brightness_ac settings that used to achieve this. Hopefully it will be back in 12.04 Until then a possible solution is to write a script that sets the back- light

[Bug 403135] Re: Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)

2010-06-05 Thread Danny Wood
@ Konstantinos Natsakis The package in your PPA fixes it on my machine for both wine and VLC which were the only apps I saw this in. Thanks! -- Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135 You received this bug not