Bug 306425

Summary:	Screen brightness reset to max after login
Product:	[Plasma] Powerdevil	Reporter:	Vianney Carel <vianney.carel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Development Mailing List <plasma-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	afiestas, bhush94, bugs.kde.org, illumilore, nate, steven
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Vianney Carel 2012-09-07 22:07:05 UTC

The screen brightness is reset to its max value every time I log in.

It looks like a regression, because on kde 4.8, I didn't have that behaviour. My current brightness setting was preserved during login.

Please not that in the system settings, in energy management, I disabled the brightness control under all modes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Uncheck the britghness checkboxes in the energy managemnt
1. Start the computer, and wait for the login screen
2. Lower the brightness
3. Log in
Actual Results:  
Brigthness is set to max.

Expected Results:  
Brightness shouldn't change.

Comment 1 Vianney Carel 2012-09-08 20:54:54 UTC

Maybe it's related... : when my laptop is mains powered, the brightness doesn't seem change when I log in.

And when i'm on battery, the brigthness sometimes comes back to 100% when I enable the setting for dimming the screen after a time of inactivity.

Comment 2 Alex Fiestas 2013-03-03 17:32:02 UTC

I can confirm this, what data should i provide to fix this?

Comment 3 Alex Fiestas 2013-03-03 17:36:27 UTC

*** Bug 307133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Steven Noonan 2013-08-01 11:27:50 UTC

This is marked as 'NEEDSINFO', can someone clarify what info is needed?

Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2013-08-04 15:49:36 UTC

I dont' think this report is set to the correct status.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-03-11 21:28:26 UTC

Can't reproduce in Plasma 5.13.3: If I set the brightness to some arbitrary level, uncheck the Brightness checkboxes in Powerdevil, and then reboot, the system come up at whatever brightness level it had when I rebooted it.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-03-11 21:32:56 UTC

*** Bug 350258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-03-11 21:33:21 UTC

*** Bug 357045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***