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Screen brightness with Beryl

Archived thread 386048 from Apple Intel Users. Markdown source: Apple_Intel_Users/thread_386048_Screen_brightness_with_Beryl.md

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#1

Hi, I have Ubuntu Edgy running on my Macbook. I followed the tutorials and everything and got all the basic stuff working, I also recompiled my kernel to get some better trackpad support (so I can turn it off when I plug a mouse in) but I'm having an issue with the screen brightness keys. They work fine when I select Metacity as my window manager but not when I'm using Beryl. Is there a work around to solve this problem, or is it just something I should learn to deal with? Thanks for any help.

#2
#3

I hadn't seen that, I'll give it a try. Thanks!

#4

Well it didn't fix my problem. Though apparently my problem isn't really with the brightness keys, I think it's that Beryl is interfering with the bindings. Until I figure something out I can just run macbook-brightness from the command line.

#5

Hi!

Beryl uses its own key bindings.

and Command Line 2 (/usr/bin/macbook-backlight +10)

Run Coomand 2 -> Grab Key -> press F2 (or Fn+F2)

  1. Open the Beryl Settings Manager
  2. -> General Options -> General Options -> Commands
  3. Edit Command Line 1: (for me: /usr/bin/macbook-backlight -10)
  4. -> General Options -> Shortcuts -> Keyboard and Mouse
  5. Run Command 1 -> Grab Key -> press F1 (or Fn+F1)
  6. Save
  7. Enjoy (hopefully... :-) )

Andi

#6

That did it for me, gracias.

Jeff