Disable Auto-Brightness Change

Tim darkxst at fastmail.fm
Sun May 29 01:17:52 UTC 2016



On 28/05/16 23:38, sej wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need some help with this serious issue for laptop users of Ubuntu-GNOME. Mostly I'm copy pasting from thequestion[1] I had asked on
> askubuntu.com. Basically, I want to completely disable the auto-brightness change feature (even if it works fine idk) and it doesn't work at
> all for me.Plain GNOME as such has an option for disabling this feature in the Power Options but unfortunately ubuntu-gnome doesn't(?). You
> can imagine how annoying and extremely difficult to work with, when it randomly changed my brightness to its whims and fansies (having said
> that, I'm still using buntu-gnome since it sometimes remains constant :phew:). Neither can i leave Ubuntu nor do i want to switch out of
> GNOME. If it comes to that, I might well have to install GNOME on top of some other Ubuntu flavour and try :/
>
> OS - Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 Had tried on 15.10 as well. 
> GNOME - 3.18.2/3/4; Didn't work on any of them.
> Kernel - 4.4.0-22-generic
> [1] http://askubuntu.com/q/776454/314138
Please file a bug, gnome-control-center should show the auto brightness option provided a sensor is detected.
> -- 
>
> Thanks and Regards
> sej
> <Using PGP/MIME, notify me for Inline PGP>
>
>




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