elementary OS

Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot. [$40]

Bug #1080552 reported by Arif Hidayat on 2012-11-19

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This bug affects 27 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	elementary OS	Fix Released	Low	Cameron Norman	elementary OS freya-0.3.0 "(aka Freya RC1)"

Bug Description

The setting do not get saved.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic-pae 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Mon Nov 19 11:57:34 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 i386 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Related branches

lp:~elementary-os/elementaryos/default-settings-trusty

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Arif Hidayat (arif-hdyt) wrote on 2012-11-19:

Dependencies.txt Edit (14.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Dani Pratomo (daneepee) on 2013-04-23

Changed in elementaryos:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Eric Karnes (karneseric) wrote on 2013-08-23:

Would love to see this get fixed, not a big issue but still an annoyance.

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Timo Reimerdes (timorei) wrote on 2014-01-10:

Same thing with keyboard backlight. Keeping (restoring) the previous settings would smoothen all location changes that require a reboot (laptop) and improve ux every day the computer gets switched on (desktops that don't suspend).

Jacob Parker (jacobparker1992) on 2014-04-16

summary:

- Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot
+ Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot [$10]

Lewis Goddard (lewisgoddard) on 2014-05-08

summary:

- Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot [$10]
+ Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot. [$25]

Lewis Goddard (lewisgoddard) on 2014-06-09

tags:

added: bounty

Fabrizio Ferrai (fferrai) on 2014-08-18

summary:

- Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot. [$25]
+ Screen brightness setting get reset after reboot. [$40]

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Joel Almeida (joelalmeidaptg) wrote on 2014-08-20:

This is bothering me a lot in Freya. It's not only the screen brightness but also the keyboard backlight (I have an Asus N56VZ).

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Jason Anderson (ertain) wrote on 2014-09-23:

One idea could be to save the settings to the user's Home directory when logging out. For instance, run a script when the user logs out. The next time they log in, the computer runs the script and sets the user's specified brightness.

For instance, about the time the user logs out, a script reads from /sys/class/backlight/<foo_backlight>/brightness and saves it to a file. Then, when the user logs back in, the system reads that brightness number and writes it to /sys/class/backlight/<foo_backlight>/brightness.

It's not a permanent fix but it seems light a good work-around.

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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote on 2015-03-22:

The update went out. Might take a couple reboots to get it started. But will work out of the box on newer isos.

Changed in elementaryos:
assignee:	nobody → Cameron Norman (cameronnemo)
importance:	Undecided → Low
milestone:	none → freya-rc1
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed