[Powerdevil] [Bug 358588] backlight not restored properly, after it was reduced on inactivity

[Māris Nartišs via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358588

Māris Nartišs <maris.kde at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Māris Nartišs <maris.kde at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Johannes Hirte from comment #0)
> After some time of inactivity, the backlight of my laptop is reduced as
> configured. But it's not restored, when resuming work on the machine. I can
> adjust the backlight by hand, either Fn-Keys or the "battery and brightness"
> systray. As a result, I get more and more backlighthelper processes. After
> one day, I have more than 100 backlighthelper processes on my system:
> 
> ps -e|grep backlighthelper|wc -l
> 112
> 
> I'm running Gentoo with KF5/Plasma packages from git.
> 
> Reproducible: Always

The growing number of backlight helper processes is not directly related. On my
system backlight levels are restored (more or less) but still I observe one new
extra backlight helper process per brightness change.

kde-plasma/powerdevil-5.6.3
ps fax | grep backlight | wc -l
13
uptime
 09:22:48 up  1:24,  9 users,  load average: 0,82, 0,75, 1,00

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