[openbox] Keybindings for screen brightness

Robert Orzanna orschiro at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 27 13:45:56 EDT 2011


Or instead of invoking xbacklight try to put the values directly in /proc/*

- Robert

2011/10/28 Andrew Gallant <jamslam at gmail.com>:
> 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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