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lmello

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 300

[SOLVED] 'Dim screen while inactive' not working

I have a sony vaio with GNOME 3. I suppose when it's not on AC power the screen should dim (it's ON on the Power Manager), but I wait and the screen's brightness doesn't drop a bit... I have another laptop, acer with Fedora 20 MATE, after a short while inactive the brightness drops. Which one is the culprit here?

edit: possibly a hardware hickup. When I start the system with the AC adapter off, everything works fine.

Last edited by lmello (2014-07-13 00:55:48)

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