Operating System: Kubuntu 19.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0 Qt Version: 5.12.2 Kernel Version: 5.0.0-25-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 15,6 GiB of RAM After rebooting my notebook, screen brightness is reset to max. Changing screen brightness works with Fn+Up/Down $ ls /sys/class/backlight/ nvidia_0 $ cat /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_0/max_brightness 100 $ systemsettings5 --version systemsettings 5.15.4
It's a systemd-backlight problem, probably unrelated to KDE: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/1840592
Thanks for following up!