[PATCH] xfce4-power-manager: Support for keyboard backlight control

Sonal Santan sonal.santan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 02:15:16 CET 2013


Hello,

Any xfce developer around who can review my patches?

-Sonal


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Sonal Santan <sonal.santan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see two downsides of using pommed:
>
> It is not integral part of XFCE
>
> It duplicates the functionality like LCD brightness and volume control
> which are already supported by XFCE
>
> The patch I have proposed integrates the keyboard backlight control into
> xfce power manager without adding any other dependency.
>
> -Sonal
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:42 -0700, Sonal Santan wrote:
>> > On Macbook Pro, the keyboard brightness key stroke events,
>> > XF86KbdBrightnessUp and XF86KbdBrightnessDown are received by X since
>> the
>> > firmware does not consume them. With current XFCE, MacBook Pro keyboard
>> > backlight never turns on since nobody acts on those events.
>>
>> Use pommed?
>> --
>> Yves-Alexis
>>
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