(This may be the wrong product; please reassign it if so.) SUMMARY When lowering the display brightness with your laptop's hotkeys to 0%, the screen is turned off. This arguably makes sense. But when doing the same with the Energy Information ("battery") plasmoid, it behaves instead simply dips to a very low brightness and never turns off. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use a laptop 2. Lower display brightness to 0% with keyboard shortcuts 3. Observe the screen turning off 4. Raise brightness again 5. Lower display brightness to 0% with the battery plasmoid OBSERVED RESULT A very dark screen, sub-5% brightness. EXPECTED RESULT Screen turns off, or at the very least behaves consistently with point 3. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.21.4 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Manjaro/Arch x86_64, Dell XPS 9310 (Intel graphics).
That is intentional. It is to prevent you from effectively turning the screen off with no way to recover from it should the brightness keys not work on your laptop.
This makes sense. Thanks, apologies for the noise.