I ran into an issue upon a fresh installation of i3wm on my laptop where, for whatever reason, my XF86MonBrightnessUp/Down keys weren't being registered (I checked with xev). Is there some way to get xbacklight to work, or some alternative? I'd prefer not to have to run sudo to change my backlight settings. Clearly something works right with compiz/unity. Which you can probably agree is not ideal - cause I have to involve sudo, I mean I could gksudo or something but that's annoying, too. The only thing that I've been able to get to work is this: sudo sh -c "cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness" xbacklight -set echo $?Īnd my monitor is still as bright/dark as it was before. With i3 it reports XF86MonBrightnessUp and XF86MonBrightnessDown, which would be pretty cool if xbacklight worked, but it doesn't. ![]() Under the default, xev reports something different. Fn+ F8 and Fn+ F9) work great in Unity/Compiz/Gnome/whatever is default, but when I change to using i3wm instead I get. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on a System76 laptop.
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