Screen brightness adjudtment

[dan93z28]

Hello,

I hope this is the appropriate section. I have had Hardy ubuntu installed for about 3 months now, and i just recently installed kde 4 to try it out. I installed it using synaptic. I was wondering if there is a program that allows you to adjust the screen brightness. I am using an HP dv6000, and kde does not recognize the fn keys for brightness adjustment. I looked through all the programs that came with kde and could not find one with a screen brightness option. As it sits now the screen brightness is a little too dim for my personal taste. I tried going into the power management settings, but i didnt find any option for screen brightness.

Thanks for any help.

[vor]

If you can't find any gui applications to do it, you could try xbacklight. For example, to set it to 50% brightness, try:


xbacklight -set 50

[dan93z28]

my eyes thank you greatly. is there a way to add this to the startup in kde so that it will automatically set my screen brightness when i log in?

[vor]

I've never used KDE but, it sounds like you can go to Control Center->KDE Components->Session Manager. If that makes sense. I just googled for "ubuntu kde startup programs" so, maybe you can find something better.

[apche93]

um, hi.

im using ubuntu 8.04 and i just installed the xbacklight prgm.

when i entered "xbacklight" into terminal, it gave out 100.000000.

that is as usual b/c my eyes are and do burn at the brightness of my sony vaio laptop.

now i tried "xbacklight -set 50" and nothing happened! i entered in "xbacklight" into terminal again and it said "50.000000" but still no change to the screen!

anyone have solution?

[nuras]

I tried changing it through the power manager. I had the same prob. All i did was to right click on the Battery button on the task bar and then change the brightness. Hope this helps.