[PATCH] Fix reduce screen brightness feature for 64bit builds

[Christian Hesse]

Marcus Overhagen <marcus.overhagen at gmail.com> on Wed, 2013/05/29 19:13:
> This fixes the "Reduce screen brightness when computer is inactive"
> feature for 64 bit installations that use the xfpm-power-backlight-helper.
> 
> The level setting is stored as guint, loading it into a glong on
> 64 bit linux has the upper 32 bit unitialized and doesn't work,
> except when they happened to be zero by chance.
> 
> This does not fix the alternate codepath used for xrandr extension,
> as I can't test that currently.
> 
> Please apply this patch.
> 
> Marcus Overhagen (1):
>   Fix for the "Reduce screen brightness when computer is inactive"    
>     feature on 64 bit installations that use the
>     xfpm-power-backlight-helper.
> 
>  src/xfpm-backlight.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I have never missed this feature. But yes, it's broken and the patch fixes it.
Thanks a lot! ;)
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