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Change brightness automatically depending on power source in 12.04

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a HP G61. When I used to use Windows in this machine, my screen to autodimmed when unplugging AC (i.e. running on battery), and brightness was restored when plugged again. ...
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If not in charge monitor decrease brightness when not active [closed]

On my notebook I've installed Ubuntu 12.10. If not connected to the power supply after few seconds of inactivity the system will decrease the brightness. The problem is that as soon the computer is no ...
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Auto Brightness depending on power source

Is there any way to make Ubuntu remember different brightness settings when I'm plugged in and when I' plugged out like windows? I dim the brightness to the minimum when I'm running my laptop on ...
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screen does not wake up after suspend/ brightness will not adjust

My computer is one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230467 Asus Zenbook UX32A-DB51 Just bought it yesterday. Set to "suspend" when I close the lid, but when I open it ...
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Brightness control doesn't seem to work on a Toshiba Satellite M115 laptop

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a Toshiba Satellite M115 laptop. The brightness control doesn't seem to work with the "brightness and lock" setting or fn+f6 and fn+f7 (which usually works in Windows). How ...
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Brightness resets to maximum after every reboot. Need some help [duplicate]

I have a UX31-E Asus Zenbook running 12.04 until today when I tried 12.10. I've experienced this issue on both versions of ubuntu. I have tried turning the brightness down manually through the ...
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How do make my screen brightness not change when i charge my laptop

I do not want my laptop to change brightness when my laptop power is plugged in or unplugged. I set my brightness based on how bright my surroundings are. If I am in a dark room, I set my brightness ...
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reduce Screen brightness in battery mode automatically

KDE and XFCE4 has a program to adjust the screen brightness automatically in battery mode to a preset value. How can i set the same with Unity ( or Gnome3 )?
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Is there a program that can adjust display brightness according to battery percentage?

When i work in Kubuntu, KDE power management has a section that lets you automatically adjust display brightness according to battery percentage. I want to know if there is a tool like that in Ubuntu ...
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How do I make brightness settings persist across rebooting?

I'm using 12.04 with up to date packages running on a Dell Inspiron N4030 laptop with an ATI Radeon HD 5400 graphics card. I'm using the new Catalyst 12.6 graphics driver (this version already fixed ...
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Brightness level is not restored back after some idle time when using fglrx

I have a laptop powered by fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 with XFCE. Before I have used a default opensource ATI driver. For several days I have been using fglrx. After some time of inactivity ...
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How to make my screen brightness not change when I plug my laptop in

I do not want my laptop to change brightness when my laptop power is plugged in or unplugged. I set my brightness based on how bright my surroundings are. If I am in a dark room, I set my brightness ...
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Can you help me write a script to set a new default brightness for the screen/keyboard after login?

On my Macbook Pro Ubuntu alsways boots with... keyboard brightness at maximum illumination screen brightness at maximum illumination ...both which I need almost never during normal usage. ...
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Power Managements/Settings Problem with Ubuntu 11.10 [closed]

I have Acer 722 netbook with C-60 APU 1GHz and AMD 6290 graphics. I upgraded my 11.04 to 11.10 and there are less functions in power managements, I have no control when my machine sleeps, hibernate, ...
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How to disable screen dimming after inactivity when this is already disabled at system settings?

When my Dell Vostro laptop is connected to the power, the screen is dimmed after 10 seconds. This is very annoying. When my laptop is running on the battery, the screen is not dimmed after ...
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Display brightness goes two shades darker if I am idle for 10-11 seconds

The display brightness comes down 2 shades darker if I'm idle for 10-11secs!! It automatically dims itself :o and it's very distracting! Earlier this could be avoided through power management, by ...
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How to control display brightness on Intel hardware?

I'm working with a Sony Vaio BZ-12 Notebook and want to know how to manage the brightness of my display, especially when it's in eco-mode. The designated Graphic-Accelerator is the Intel GM45. With ...
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How can I adjust the time that automatically reduces the brightness of screen?

At the moment it uses just a few seconds of inactivity after that ubuntu reduces the brightness of my screen. Where do i find the option to increase this value?