Bug 504377 - External monitor brightness control don't shows up until relogin with the monitor connected or restart of the plasma-powerdevil.service
Summary: External monitor brightness control don't shows up until relogin with the mon...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 482713
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Power management & brightness (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.90
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: multiscreen
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-05-17 02:57 UTC by Vinícius
Modified: 2025-05-19 15:01 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Brightness and control when i logged in plasma without the external monitor connected (13.97 KB, image/png)
2025-05-17 02:57 UTC, Vinícius
Details
Print brightness and color after i restarted powerdevil.service (19.01 KB, image/png)
2025-05-17 02:59 UTC, Vinícius
Details

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Description Vinícius 2025-05-17 02:57:23 UTC
Created attachment 181408 [details]
Brightness and control when i logged in plasma without the external monitor connected

SUMMARY
when i connect my external monitor in my laptop, it only shows my laptop build-in brightness control in the system tray(or nothing is i have the "switch to external screen" display configuration set

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. log in plasma without the external monitor connected 
2. connect the external monitor
3. open the brightness control tray icon
4. observe that no brightness control for the external monitor shows up

OBSERVED RESULT
it only shows the laptop build-in screen control(or nothing if the "switch to external screen" display configuration is set)

EXPECTED RESULT
The expected result is for external monitor brightness control to show up when connected
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Unknown Type, 8 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7,1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82MF
System Version: IdeaPad 3 15ALC6

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
if i relogin with the external monitor connected or if i run `systemctl --user restart plasma-powerdevil.service` the issue get fixed
Comment 1 Vinícius 2025-05-17 02:59:49 UTC
Created attachment 181409 [details]
Print brightness and color after i restarted powerdevil.service
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-05-19 15:01:50 UTC
Fedora 42 has ddcutil-2.1.4; this will be fixed with ddcutil-2.2.1 or later (once 2.2.1 is released, that is)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482713 ***