[openbox] Keybindings for screen brightness

Andrew Gallant jamslam at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 10:05:17 EDT 2011


You might also try using xbindkeys.

- Andrew


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/10/11 22:43, Paul wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:14:32PM +1100, Robbie Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a workaround I could use to bind the brightness keys
>>> to their respective functions?
>>
>> Put xbacklight in a script and bind to the script instead?
>>
> That causes exactly the same glitch. The script works fine when called
> manually, but as an Openbox keybinding it goes nuts. The script I was using
> uses bc to work out the integer value of the brightness, from 0 to 7, and
> then converts that back into the percentage that xbacklight understands.
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