[ Solved ] Laptop brightness keys

[way12go]

I've installed sparkylinux 4 RC on both desktop and laptop and the icons are awesome.

Previously I used  Mate and I could access laptop brightness keys etc also I was getting visual effects for the keys and now in LXDE the keys are no longer working. What is the app for it?

[pavroo]

Install 'xbacklight' package.
Edit the file:

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~HOME/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
Before :

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</keyboard>
paste the text:

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<keybind key="XF86MonBrightnessDown">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>xbacklight -20</command>
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>yes</enabled>
          <name>Decrease screen brightness</name>
        </startupnotify>
      </action>
    </keybind>
  <keybind key="XF86MonBrightnessUp">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>xbacklight +20</command>
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>yes</enabled>
          <name>Increase screen brightness</name>
        </startupnotify>
      </action>
    </keybind>
Then re-login and use function keys or special + Up/Down keys to change brightness.

[way12go]

Thanks, it's working. But, in previous Mate installations I could see the on-screen display of key effects now I can use the keys but there is no on-screen display.

Anyway it's okay.

Thanks again.

[cynclida]

On my laptop I got OSD working (for brightness and volume) applying the following steps:

general:
- installed xfce4-notifyd, stopped autostart of notification deamon unchecking it in Dsktop Session Settings
brightness:
- installed xfce4-power-manager, added it to autostart checking it in Desktop Session Settings
volume:
- installed volumeicon-alsa and created volumeicon.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Volumeicon
Exec=volumeicon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Applications;GTK;
NoDisplay=true


After reboot, I had to check control for brightness keys in Power Management and for volume keys in Volumeicon. Now OSD works  :)

[Adwaith R Krishna]

Tried all the stuff mention above..still not working, running sparky on lenovo z51-70

[paxmark1]

http://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,2305.0.html

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