Re: Can't change LCD brightness

[Ray Strode <halfline gmail com>]

Hey,

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com> wrote:
> I have noticed that "Brightness and Lock" under "System Settings"
> present controls for adjustment only for laptop LCDs.  Why?  Most of
> my desktops use LCD monitors and their brightness often need
> adjustment.  Why is this feature missing in Gnome3?
There is an experimental X server branch somewhere to support changing
brightness control on external monitors (for the monitors that suppor
it).  It hasn't landed yet, but at some point in the future the
feature will available for GNOME to take advantage of.

This topic actually came up earlier today in a discussion on
#fedora-devel.  It's certainly confusing to have an applet with
Brightness in the name that doesn't let you change Brightness. Someone
filed a bug about that following the discussion.  It can be found
here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681026

--Ray