Sunsetting PowerDevil's XRandrBrightness

[Martin Steigerwald]

Martin Steigerwald - 26.05.20, 14:35:39 CEST:
> Hi Kai.
> 
> Kai Uwe Broulik - 20.05.20, 21:31:07 CEST:
> > PowerDevil has two (three, if you count DDC) means of controlling
> > screen brightness:
> > 
> > * Writing to sysfs (/sys/class/backlight and /sys/class/leds)
> > * Using XRandr output property
> > 
> > XRandR is doing X calls and we have some lovely animated screen
> > brightness change. However, the UPower "backend" in PowerDevil is
> > quite a spaghetti class and having multiple ways to control LEDs
> > doesn't help.
> 
> Read your blog post and tried the command there:
> 
> % QT_LOGGING_RULES='powerdevil=true'
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/ org_kde_powerdevil
> 
> gave no output whatsoever.
> 
> However as I am using the "modesetting" driver I bet it won't use
> XRandR.
> 
> Also that is on Debian Sid where KDE Frameworks currently is still at
> 5.62. Sandro works on 5.70 currently. ThinkPad T520 with Intel
> Sandybridge graphics.

Actually I already had 5.69 from Debian experimental. 5.70 now coming in 
to unstable, so I can test again once it is available.

-- 
Martin