Re: [gpm] Set screen backlight through dbus

[Hong Xu <hong topbug net>]

Richard Hughes writes:

> On 28 November 2014 at 19:47,  <hong topbug net> wrote:
> > I tried to set screen backlight through dbus by using the following
> > command on GNOME:
>
> A bit confused; this works for me:
>
> gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power
> --object-path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Power --method
> org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.Screen.StepUp
>
> This commit seems to have broken the interface;
>
> commit a4c3299c97ced9c9bcdc69800464103ba47a0a56
> Author: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net>
> Date:   Tue Apr 23 20:04:01 2013 -0400
>
>     power: Use a DBus property for screen brightness
>
> It looks like you can now set the brightness just by writing to the
> "Brightness" property on the same interface. I hope that helps.

Thanks for your reply. This is a helpful message for me. However, is
there a reason to break this interface? It seems this is unnecessary.

Thanks,
Hong

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