Re: power plug screen brightness control (was: emacs icomplete-vertical for manpages chdir(2) fails)

[Rob Whitlock <rwhitlock22%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On Oct 7, 2024, at 9:58 PM, Van Ly <van.ly%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> Thanks Martin.
> 
> I keep my laptop always on, on the desk.  The defaults for timing
> periodic events can stay as they are.  The way NetBSD does 
> 
>  "man -k output" 
> 
> is different enough to cause hiccups on Emacs autocompletes.  This is
> being looked at by the emacs-devs.
> 
> Thanks for the details on how the jobs are scheduled.
> 
> (I effectively stopped computing since the GFC but had a set of 700MB
> files, each being one line long and couldn't open them, I reached for an
> alternative to Emacs which was Atom at the time, 2016, but that wouldn't
> open them, Emacs with the vlf package did. I use mg and fallback to vi
> where emacs is unavailable.  Straying further off-topic, I find when the
> powerplug goes in and out on the laptop, the screen switches to maximum
> brightness, Fn + brightness up/down, will adjust the brightness to one
> step from where it had forgotten the brightness setting was at, having
> the brightness state kept unchanged when the powerplug goes in/out will
> improve laptop UX)

I have the same issue on my Lenovo Thinkpad T450 as described here:

https://gnats.netbsd.org/58257

Out of curiosity, and for looking for commonalities, what system do you
have this power plug/screen brightness problem on?

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> vl