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[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The minimum screen brightness is now always 1, and the minimum keyboard brightness is now always 0, ensuring that the screen backlight never turns off completely at minimum brightness, while the keyboard backlight always does

That's cool, but is it still possible to easily switch off the screen? For laptops, that's useful from time to time.
I think the best way would be that when long pressing the brightness lowering key, it stops lowering it at 1% as with this change, but pressing it once more would make it 0.

Also, I wasn't able to keep up with recent changes. Does anyone know if it's possible now to customize the rounded corners of windows and panels?

[-] happyhippo@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Laptops usually have a dedicated key to turn off the screen, no?

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

You mean the external display toggle? Because otherwise, no.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mine doesn't, but even if it would have, most of the original special keys don't work in Linux. It's quite annoying because I don't have F keys and Home-PageUp and such, they were accessible with key combinations with the original OS.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

On most laptops that do that, there's a BIOS setting that fixes it, the F keys at least. On HP's, you can set whether you want the top row to act as F keys or "media" keys. Any combo that uses the Fn key should work in Linux, and you can set your own hot-keys/shortcuts in Linux as well.

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