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I hope these changes deal with the all too common case of the lowest brightness setting on laptops in Linux being zero. That's fun for new users if they don't have obvious keyboard shortcuts for brightness control (or they do but the keys aren't mapped properly in Linux) and they end up with a black screen.
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Originally posted by user1 View PostThis might be slightly off topic, but does anyone feel like Linux's handling of display power cycling is really not robust? I'll give you 2 examples:
On KDE power cycling may cause Plasma desktop to crash. I think it also once happened to me with XFCE a long time ago.
On Gnome I recently wanted to modify my monitor settings during gameplay and accidentally pressed the monitor power button. When I turned it back on, the game crashed. This also happend multiple times.
Originally posted by user1 View PostOn Windows, display power cycling never caused any issues. I think the reason for this might be the way display detection works on both operating systems:
On Linux auto detection seems to be running constantly, while on Windows you usually need to press "detect display" if you have some changes in your monitor setup, hence power cycling doesn't cause any issues on Windows.
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I wonder if this new API could also help in desktop/external screen cases where brightness control currently barely works (and is usually not exposed by DEs by default)? Or is that mostly unrelated?
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Originally posted by hamishmb View PostMy windows move around when I power cycle monitors on Cinnamon (X11). It's a multi monitor setup.
Interestingly, Mate is the only DE that didn't give me any issues with power cycling. It also has a "detect monitor" button in its display settings, which implies that it works more like on Windows.Last edited by user1; 17 September 2022, 09:43 AM.
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This might be slightly off topic, but does anyone feel like Linux's handling of display power cycling is really not robust? I'll give you 2 examples:
On KDE power cycling may cause Plasma desktop to crash. I think it also once happened to me with XFCE a long time ago.
On Gnome I recently wanted to modify my monitor settings during gameplay and accidentally pressed the monitor power button. When I turned it back on, the game crashed. This also happend multiple times.
On Windows, display power cycling never caused any issues. I think the reason for this might be the way display detection works on both operating systems:
On Linux auto detection seems to be running constantly, while on Windows you usually need to press "detect display" if you have some changes in your monitor setup, hence power cycling doesn't cause any issues on Windows.
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Linux's Display Brightness/Backlight Interface Is Finally Being Overhauled
Phoronix: Linux's Display Brightness/Backlight Interface Is Finally Being Overhauled
Hans de Goede of Red Hat has been involved with many great Linux desktop/laptop hardware improvements over the years for work that would have otherwise likely gone unaddressed. One of the initiatives he has been focusing on recently that has long been a sore point for Linux laptops has been the user-space backlight/brightness interface. This week at Linux Plumbers Conference was a presentation on this effort that has long been ripe for improvement...
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