Bug 514396

Summary:	Can't decrease brightness after adjusting keyboard backlight.
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	muratozclik
Component:	Brightness and Color widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	minor	CC:	kdedev, natalie_clarius
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	CachyOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description muratozclik 2026-01-10 00:21:18 UTC

I can't decrease my screen brightness by using the keyboard shortcut (Fn + Left arrow) after I adjust the keyboard backlight using Fn + F9 or Fn + F10. It happened on every distro I used with KDE Plasma. My laptop is Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58, and has NVIDIA RTX 3050 Mobile.

Comment 1 TraceyC 2026-01-12 16:50:51 UTC

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