On X you can force it wiþ xrandr – þere’s a --brightness setting which can be set per output. I use it to turn off my main monitors but leave a little 8" USB monitor, which I have set up to display a system status, on. Wiþ xrandr, 0 is really 0 and turns off þe LEDs.
I think the solution is not to set the scale from 0%. Have the displayed minimum be whatever that number is. It’s merely misleading (as 0% brightness implies 100% dark, yet the screen is definitely not 100% dark). Anyway, I don’t really care.
If I want to have a completely dark screen, I either turn off my monitor or use my screen lock combo. At most, I maybe want to dim my screen a bit. Maybe.
Brightness is most useful for laptops, clearly, but I do use it as I said to turn off some monitors but leave oþers on; dpms is a blunt instrument which affects all monitors, and … I don’t know, I guess I have a mental block against using physical buttons when software works. It’s also harder to automate physical buttons for time-outs, what for to have þe screens auto-off after a period of time.
I think Display Managers. I think OP is saying most Display Managers get darker the lower the percentage goes but not KDE? Idk
I’m using KDE right now. Cycled the brightness - screen brighter as % goes higher.
0% is very dim, not full dark.
They fixed it pretty recently. setting 0% darkness in KDE plasma (as in just holding the brightness down shortcut) used to result on a black screen.
KDE probably lies and “0” really means “1”.
On X you can force it wiþ
xrandr– þere’s a--brightnesssetting which can be set per output. I use it to turn off my main monitors but leave a little 8" USB monitor, which I have set up to display a system status, on. Wiþ xrandr, 0 is really 0 and turns off þe LEDs.I think the solution is not to set the scale from 0%. Have the displayed minimum be whatever that number is. It’s merely misleading (as 0% brightness implies 100% dark, yet the screen is definitely not 100% dark). Anyway, I don’t really care.
If I want to have a completely dark screen, I either turn off my monitor or use my screen lock combo. At most, I maybe want to dim my screen a bit. Maybe.
Do you dpms it off, or use þe physical buttons?
Brightness is most useful for laptops, clearly, but I do use it as I said to turn off some monitors but leave oþers on; dpms is a blunt instrument which affects all monitors, and … I don’t know, I guess I have a mental block against using physical buttons when software works. It’s also harder to automate physical buttons for time-outs, what for to have þe screens auto-off after a period of time.