Bug 325643 - Auto display dimming shows brightness meter popup
Summary: Auto display dimming shows brightness meter popup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: solid
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: powermanagement (show other bugs)
Version: 4.11.2
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dario Freddi
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: 264485 342540 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-10-04 20:58 UTC by Mark
Modified: 2015-01-08 01:25 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description Mark 2013-10-04 20:58:39 UTC 
Since I upgraded to the Kubuntu beta, when my display auto dims due to inactivity, the pop-up brightness meter displays as if i was dimming it manually with the keypress. It should only do this if I'm actually pressing the key.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 4 00:40:54 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-03 (153 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
When the screen auto dims due to inactivity the brightness meter appears

Expected Results:  
It should not appear.
Comment 1 Mark 2013-10-05 09:03:44 UTC 
Laptop in question is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon
Comment 2 xejakig884 2013-10-05 12:28:23 UTC 
Also seeing this problem on a Samsung R720 with ATI HD4000 series graphics
Comment 3 Richard Neill 2013-10-27 01:17:40 UTC 
I see this too, on a Thinkpad X60 (Kubuntu Saucy, KDE 4.11.2
It happens all the time:
  - when the screensaver dims due to inactivity
  - when I wake the machine from screen-blank. 

(I think I've also seen this on my desktop machine, which flashes the notification very fast, as if it *would* dim the screen, but actually, the screen brightness isn't changing).

Please fix this: it may be a trivial bug, but it's really quite distracting, especially on resume.

Thanks very much
Comment 4 Mark 2013-11-07 08:35:50 UTC 
Also, when the brightness adjustment keys are used on my X1 Carbon, the meter does not appear.
Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2013-11-17 15:43:26 UTC 
*** Bug 264485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Morten Lind 2013-12-06 20:47:50 UTC 
I confirm this inconvenient and unavoidable behaviour. I love KDE- and KDE application- developers for only adding nice-to-have features, if they can be suppressed by the user. However, this brightness-OSD from hell is not an example to follow :-)
Comment 7 Martin Tamashiro 2014-03-29 20:57:24 UTC 
I confirm this also in Linux Mint 16 KDE 64 bit Edition. (KDE 4.11.2). Asus UL80VT.
Comment 8 Martin Tamashiro 2014-03-29 20:58:13 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 9 Tim Holy 2014-06-21 12:15:23 UTC 
This is particularly problematic if one is giving a LibreOffice presentation in front of a large audience.
Comment 10 Christoph Feck 2014-06-25 18:15:28 UTC 
If LibreOffice doesn't request screen saver inhibition during a presentation, please report it there.
Comment 11 Tim Holy 2014-06-30 19:11:25 UTC 
Thanks, Christoph. Done: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80729
Comment 12 Kai Uwe Broulik 2014-12-27 12:51:53 UTC 
This has been fixed for Plasma 5 where the OSD will only ever show up if the user manually touched the brightness, never if the system automatically does it.
Comment 13 Tim Holy 2015-01-05 20:34:28 UTC 
Very nice, thanks so much!
Comment 14 Christoph Feck 2015-01-06 22:33:19 UTC 
*** Bug 342540 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Christoph Feck 2015-01-08 01:25:42 UTC 
*** Bug 342540 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***