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brightness keys #143

Closed sharktie closed 3 years ago

sharktie commented 3 years ago

hi. i looked around in the keybinds file but couldn't quite figure out how to change it so the keys at F1 and F2 change brightness. I'm new to this whole thing and wanted to start from someone else's config files. If you could please let me know where to change them that would be great. Thank you

elenapan commented 3 years ago

Hi there,

The section you are looking for is here: https://github.com/elenapan/dotfiles/blob/e952184146525f8d75ccfccb187938de1efafc54/config/awesome/keys.lua#L358-L368

Simply change XF86MonBrightnessDown to F1 and XF86MonBrightnessUp to F2.

sharktie commented 3 years ago

i did try that but found no change. I'm on a laptop so maybe the need to press the function key is messing with it. i did try pressing function + F1 but that didn't work either. The audio controls work though so i tried using those but i don't understand how they work seeing as they are assigned to F1 F2 and F3 even though i have it on F10 F11 and F12 on mine. It might be an issue on my side in which case ill be able to ask somewhere else. Thanks!

phob0s-pl commented 3 years ago

I have fixed similar issue. First of all to see light errors type: light -U 10 -v 3

I needed to add my user to video group: sudo usermod -a -G video phob0s

And store minimal value: light -N 0

Its worth to store current value of light: light -O

sharktie commented 3 years ago

Yes! Thanks a lot for this. I had to edit permissions for sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness and allow it to be edited. Along with setting the minimal and current value.