| Summary: | Laptop screen brightness not restored if interrupted while screen-dimming | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | slartibart70 |
| Component: | Power management & brightness | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | jpetso, marcus.typ.johansson, natalie_clarius, nate, nicolas.fella, vasyl.demin |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 6.2.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
slartibart70
2023-06-05 12:12:41 UTC
also related: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470107 What do you mean with "Then interrupt by keyboard press. Login again."? (In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #2) > What do you mean with "Then interrupt by keyboard press. Login again."? My reading is that this describes the interaction on the lock screen. Keyboard press will (attempt to) cancel the dimming and show the password field. "Login again" refers to unlocking the session, as opposed to anything SDDM-related. Note that dimming has seen a number of improvements since 5.27.5, in particular: * https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/commit/14647dc6ffd1104c1c0ab393518de8a65cb39d70 (went into 5.27.8) * https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/commit/8681355217eb6ff121785572eaf4ef2ca21b464b (went into 6.0.1). The dimming code is still a little fragile in its interactions with other brightness mechanisms, but it's possible that this particular bug has been fixed by now. Could you retest with a more recent Plasma (5.27.8 or higher, ideally Plasma 6.0.2 or higher) and report back on whether you're still seeing this issue? I can confirm this still happening on plasma 6.0.3. Forum post here: https://discuss.kde.org/t/night-colors-brightness-and-screen-saver/12285 Since there is no way of triggering this other than randomly catching my computer "dimming" it's hard to provide much more than "it still happens". But if you have ideas of what I could provide that could help, please let me know. Hi, quick update. In Plasma 6.2, KWin/Wayland plays a role in (re)setting display brightness. PowerDevil is still responsible for changing brightness values, but KWin will issue commands to set the brightness that it stored. In Plasma 6.3, we've merged a substantial refactoring of dimming logic. Under Wayland, this means the configured brightness will never be permanently lowered to a dimmed value accidentally. Any dimming is temporary and will be reset to the current brightness value at the next KWin output configuration change event. Under X11, also more robust, but didn't solve the case where the display is still dimmed after having rebooted with dimming on. See merge requests https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/merge_requests/466 and https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/merge_requests/469 for code & more information on this. Altogether, there's a good chance that this bug was fixed either in a released Plasma version already or will be fixed in 6.3. I can't confirm the originally reported issue, please keep us up to date now or after 6.3 is available for your system. Thanks! |